[1733] On the pankration, see Gardiner, Ch. XX, pp. 435 f.; id., J. H. S., XXVI, 1906, pp. 4 f. and Pls. III-V; Krause, I, pp. 534 f.; etc.
[1734] For the etymology, see Plato, Euthydem., 271 C, D; definition, Pollux III, 150; Plut., Quaest. conviv., II, 4 (containing also fanciful etymologies of πάλη); cf. Philostr., Imag., II, 6 (containing a full account of the contest in the description of the death of Arrhachion); cf. schol. on Plato, de Rep., I, 338 C, D.
[1735] Vita Demonactis, 49 (against biting).
[1736] L. c. (against biting and gouging).
[1737] Aves, 442–3; Pax, 898–9.
[1738] E 78; another example is seen on a r.-f. kylix in Baltimore: Gardiner, p. 437, fig. 152; J. H. S., XXVI, p. 9, fig. 3; Hartwig, Die griech. Meisterschalen, Pl. LXIV; Perrot-Chipiez, X, p. 629, fig. 350.
[1739] Nem., II, III, V; Isthm., IV, V, VI, VII, VIII.
[1740] Frag. 19, l. 5 (ap. Athenæum, X, 6 = 414 a).
[1741] E. g., Mahaffy, in his Old Greek Life, 1886, p. 56; see Gardiner, pp. 435–7, in refutation of such an exaggerated view.
[1742] De Leg., VIII, 832 E; 834 A.