How to use xystus in a sentence
Then they crossed the xystus to the peristyle, and went along a carpeted corridor to the atrium.
Quintus Claudius, Volume 1 of 2 | Ernst Ecksteinxystus (—Hall) the name of the luxuriously-adorned garden back of the peristyle.
Quintus Claudius, Volume 1 of 2 | Ernst EcksteinIn Rome this custom prevailed, at least since the pontificates of xystus and Telesphorus (about 120).
English Conferences of Ernest Renan | Ernest RenanThere are other similar instances as in the case of "xystus," "prothyrum," "telamones," and some others of the sort.
Ten Books on Architecture | VitruviusThe xystus was a level piece of ground, in front of a portico, divided into flower-beds of various shapes by borders of box.
The Fables of Phdrus | Phaedrus
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