xystus
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From the portico we ascend by three steps to the xystus.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
The private part comprised the peristyle, bed-chambers, triclinium, œci, picture-gallery, library, baths, exedra, xystus, etc.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
In front of it is a xystus, fragrant with violets, where the sun's heat is increased by reflection from the cryptoportico, which, at the same time, breaks the northeast wind.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
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 Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
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
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