xystus
Americannoun
plural
xystiExample Sentences
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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 Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
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
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)
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