pancrătĭastes, ae, m., = παγκρατιαστής,
a combatant in the pancratium, a pancratiast : Diagoras tres filios adulescentes habuit, unum pugilem, alterum pancratiasten, tertium luctatorem, Gell. 3, 15, 3; Plin. 34, 8, 19, §§ 57, 59; Quint. 2, 8, 13.