itions, since tactics have been brought to perfection. Egypt at no time adopted them, as they give only a temporary strength. Lacedemon has corrected their inconveniences by the wisdom of her institutions. In the other states of Greece men have discovered, that, by subjecting their children to them, they incur the risk of injuring their shape and preventing their growth; and that, in a more advanced age, professed wrestlers never make good soldiers, because they are unable to support hunger, thirst, watching, the smallest wants, or the most trifling deviation from their usual habits." See PENTATHLUM and PANCRIATIUM.

PALÆSTROPHYLAX, was the director of the palaestra, and the exercises performed there.