Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Athletae

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ATHLE'TAE (ἀθληταί). A general name for the combatants who contended for a prize (ἆθλον), in the public games of Greece and Italy; of whom there were five kinds, each distinguished by an appropriate name, viz. CURSOR, LUCTATOR, PUGIL, QUINQUERTIO, PANCRATIASTES.