(compounded of πάν, all, and σπαρτός, strength) signifies properly an athletic game in which all the powers of the athlete were brought into play. It consisted of wrestling and boxing; but the athletes were not permitted to seize the body, and their hands were not armed with gauntlets. The pancretium was the third and the most severe of all the gymnastic exercises of Greece, and was not introduced till long after the others. The people who were engaged in these exercises were called paneratistas,—a name which was also given to such as did not confine themselves to one exercise, but succeeded in several different ones. (See J. H. Krause, Die Gym. und Agon. der Hellenen, vol. i.)