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Definition of Pentathletes
1. pentathlete [n] - See also: pentathlete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentathletes
Literary usage of Pentathletes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odes of Pindar in English Prose by Pindar, Gilbert West (1824)
"... to serve as boundaries or limits, within which the pentathletes were obliged
to leap and to throw the disck and javelin; and which if they transgressed, ..."
2. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"... pentathletes who claim their every orgasm in VR has its simultaneous counterpart
in RL, I don't know that I would have availed myself of their ..."
3. Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadion by David Gilman Romano (1993)
"At Elis, the dromos for the runners and pentathletes to practice on as we hieros
dromos, a sacred racecourse, for the competing runners. ..."
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