Disputatio:Pro-wrestling
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[recensere] Luctatio
Due to my essay of a couple of weeks ago, I know that wrestling in Roman times was either luctatio (proper greco-roman wrestling) vel pancratium (fighing where everything was allowed but hitting in between the legs and poking in the eyes). The two were different-ish things, but either way, they would be closer to wrestling than saying that they were "gladiatorial and circus games of the Greeks". Should we change that very phrase?--Xaverius 08:35, 28 Maii 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, not least because ludo gladiatorum circenseque Graecorum doesn't mean 'gladiatorial and circus games of the Greeks'. The rest of the first sentence—"Pro wrestling est ludus liber professionalis spectaculum institutus ludo gladiatorum circenseque Graecorum est quorum proventi a conciliatore praedestinantur"—is ungrammatical too. ¶ My eighteenth-century dictionary has (with an asterisk marking nonclassical words): to wrestle, luctor; to wrestle against, obluctor; to wrestle with, colluctor, deluctor; a wrestler, luctator, *palaestrita; a wrestling, lucta, luctatus, luctatio, luctamen, colluctatio; a wrestling-place, *palaestra; a champion at wrestling, *athleta; of wrestling, *athleticus, *palaestricus. ¶ Your pancratium might be more like muay thai (Thai kickboxing), or other "mixed martial arts," especially those fought inside a fenced enclosure called an octagon. IacobusAmor 10:42, 28 Maii 2007 (UTC)