Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Quinquertium

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. 

QUINQUER'TIUM (πενταθλον). An athletic contest of Greek origin (Festus, s. v.) consisting of five feats (quinque artium), viz.; leaping (saltus, ἅλμα), running (cursus, δρόμος), wrestling (lucta, πάλη), throwing the quoit (discus, δίσκος), and boxing (pugilatus, πυγμή), for which last throwing the javelin (jaculatio, ἀκόντισις) was afterwards substituted; but to gain the prize it was necessary to achieve a victory in all the five.