There shall be three contests of each kind--one for boys, another for youths, a third for men; the course for the boys we will fix at half, and that for the youths at two-thirds of the entire length.

Women shall join in the races: young girls who are not grown up shall run naked; but after thirteen they shall be suitably dressed; from thirteen to eighteen they shall be obliged to share in these contests, and from eighteen to twenty they may if they please and if they are unmarried.

As to trials of strength, single combats in armour, or battles between two and two, or of any number up to ten, shall take the place of wrestling and the heavy exercises.

And there must be umpires, as there are now in wrestling, to determine what is a fair hit and who is conqueror.

Instead of the pancratium, let there be contests in which the combatants carry bows and wear light shields and hurl javelins and throw stones.