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πένταθλον

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Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep

Gnomologium Vaticanum, 446
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Transliteration A: péntathlon Transliteration B: pentathlon Transliteration C: pentathlon Beta Code: pe/ntaqlon

English (LSJ)

Lyr. and Ion. πεντάεθλον, τό,

   A contest of the five exercises (viz. ἅλμα, ποδωκείην, δίσκον, ἄκοντα, πάλην, Simon.153), Pi.O.13.30, N.7.8, B.8.104, etc. ; πεντάεθλον ἐπασκέειν or ἀσκέειν Hdt.6.92, 9.33 ; πένταθλ' ἃ νομίζεται is corrupt in S.El.691 ; cf. πέμπαθλον.

German (Pape)

[Seite 556] τό, ion. πεντάεθλον, der Fünfkampf, quinquertium, der Inbegriff der fünf Leibesübungen ἅλμα, δίσκος, δρόμος, πάλη, πυγμή; Pind. Ol. 13, 29; plur., N. 7, 8; δρόμων, διαύλων, πεντάεθλ' ἃ νομίζεται, Soph. El. 681; πεντάεθλον ἐπασκήσας, Her. 6, 92. 9, 33; es wurden jene fünf Uebungen auch allein angestellt, und der Sieger in jeder einzelnen belohnt, das πένταθλον aber erfordert einen Sieg in allen fünf hinter einander erkämpft, vgl. Böckh Inscr. 34 p. 52 a u. explicatt. zu Pind. N. 7, 71, u. s. das Folgende.