De Cherubim (eng)

80 So also (in the case of) receiving blows: on the one hand, there is the (kind) which befalls a slave who has done wrong and deserves blows, (or) a free man being stretched on a wheel on account of some misdeed, or (that which befalls) one of the inanimate things – for stones, pieces of wood, gold, and silver, and all the materials that are hammered or cut apart in a bronze forge are struck – on the other hand, there is that (kind of receiving blows) which befalls an athlete competing in boxing or the pancratium^{1Lit.: „all-power contest,“ a discipline where practically everything apart from biting and scratching was allowed (cf. Brändl 2006, 90, n. 55).} for victory and crowns.