xystus
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xysti
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On the south side of these was again a double portico; and on the north, outside the pillars, the xystus, or covered porch, where the athletes exercised in winter and in bad weather.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various
There are other similar instances as in the case of "xystus," "prothyrum," "telamones," and some others of the sort.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
Behind the "xystus" a stadium, so designed that great numbers of people may have plenty of room to look on at the contests between the athletes.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The viridarium, or xystus, surrounded with spacious porticoes, was once filled with the choicest flowers, and refreshed by the grateful murmur of two fountains.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
The xystus, or garden, adjoining the house had been laid out like a Grecian landscape with cypresses and laurels between squares of roses and violets.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
The xysti were places constructed like porticos, in which the wrestlers exercised.
From Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Charles K. Dillaway
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