pammachum

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

pammachum (-chium), i, n., = παμμάχιον,

an athletic contest , consisting of wrestling , boxing with the naked fists , and boxing with the cestus : in quibus (ludis) contendit pammachum (al. pammacho) quod nos pancratium vocamus, Hyg. Fab. 273; Inscr. Fabr. p. 106, n. 226.