- a variation of palestra.
palaestra
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Etymology
Origin of palaestra
C16: via Latin from Greek palaistra, from palaiein to wrestle
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Provincial towns such as Bath had their thermae, heated bathing complexes with splendid indoor pools and an attached palaestra for exercising in the revered Greek style.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2012
The young Athenian from his sixth year onward spent his whole day away from home, in the company of his contemporaries, at school or palaestra, or in the streets.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
Literature received no such emphasis in the elementary schools of Rome as in those of the Greeks, and the palaestra of the Greeks was not reproduced at Rome.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
The spirit of metaphysics puts on the human form; and Dialectic walks the streets and contends in the palaestra.
From The Greek View of Life by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
They then devoted their lives to attaining excellence in these exercises, and withdrew to the palaestra, or training-school.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various
The rollers used for smoothing the walks in palaestrae will serve as an example of this method.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
In the palaestrae and circuses of the city I toiled, and in the camps no less; and in all of them I have a name, but not that of my fathers.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
Next, although the building of palaestrae is not usual in Italy, I think it best to set forth the traditional way, and to show how they are constructed among the Greeks.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
In the palaestrae of Rome I am not unknown.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
Every rib in the round body was discernible; yet the leanness was the healthful reduction so strained after in the palaestrae.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
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