pancratiast

And yet, Socrates, rhetoric should be used like any other competitive art, not against everybody-the rhetorician ought not to abuse his strength any more than a pugilist or pancratiast or other master of fence; because he has powers which are more than a match either for friend or enemy, he ought not therefore to strike, stab, or slay his friends.

Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments 2010

Arcadians, Antiochus, the pancratiast; and on that of the Eleians,

Hellenica 2007

You cannot mean to say that because Polydamas, the pancratiast, is stronger than we are, and finds the eating of beef conducive to his bodily strength, that to eat beef is therefore equally for our good who are weaker than he is, and right and just for us?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

For I think that what makes a pancratiast beautiful, makes a wrestler to be not good, and a runner to be most ridiculous; and he who is beautiful for the Pentathlon, is very ugly for wrestling.

The Discourses of Epictetus 2004

In the application of thy principles thou must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it.

The Meditations 2004

He who can fling forward his legs in a certain way, and move them fast and far, is good at running; he who can grip and hold down is good at wrestling; he who can drive an adversary from his ground with the right blow is a good boxer: he who can do both the last is a good pancratiast, while he who can do all is an ‘all-round’ athlete.

Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

In the application of thy principles thou must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it.

XII 1909

Antiochus, the pancratiast; and on that of the Eleians, Archidamus.

Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

You cannot mean to say that because Polydamas, the pancratiast, is stronger than we are, and finds the eating of beef conducive to his bodily strength, that to eat beef is therefore equally for our good who are weaker than he is, and right and just for us?

The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

And yet, Socrates, rhetoric should be used like any other competitive art, not against everybody, -- the rhetorician ought not to abuse his strength any more than a pugilist or pancratiast or other master of fence; -- because he has powers which are more than a match either for friend or enemy, he ought not therefore to strike, stab, or slay his friends.

Gorgias 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855