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Pancratium   Listen
noun
Pancratium  n.  
1.
(Gr. Antiq.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
2.
(Bot.) A genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now placed in the related genus Hymenocallis.





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... value on pleasing song and dancing and the pancratium, if thou wilt distribute the melody of the voice into its several sounds, and ask thyself as to each, if thou art mastered by this; for thou wilt be prevented by shame from confessing it: and in the matter of dancing, if at each movement and attitude thou wilt ...
— Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


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