How To Use Palaestra In A Sentence
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Gleaming with oil, demurely home from the palaestra or the dance.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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It was two stories and built in a U shape, enclosing a palaestra or exercise yard, where athletes and other citizens would have exercised naked before hitting the showers— well, the caldarium— in the building itself.
Log of the Eclipse (11)
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The Olympic Stadiums mainly concentrate in Olympic Green, such as National Stadium, Water Cube, Hockey Field, Archery Field, Tennis Center, Yingdong Swim Palaestra, etc.
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To the left of the Hellenic gate is the palaestra, an open area where young athletes would have exercised, and behind this is the Roman bath, divided as usual into frigidarium, caldarium, and tepidarium, depending on the temperature of the water.
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Afterwards I challenged him to the palaestra; and he wrestled and closed with me several times when there was no one present; I fancied that I might succeed in this manner.
The Symposium
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He wants whatever Atticus may think proper for his "palaestra" and "gymnasium.
Life of Cicero Volume One
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To the left of the Hellenic gate is the palaestra, an open area where young athletes would have exercised, and behind this is the Roman bath, divided as usual into frigidarium, caldarium, and tepidarium, depending on the temperature of the water.
Log of the Eclipse (5)
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He noted two features special to Eastern baths: the absence of the palaestra (exercise court) and the diminished importance of the frigidarium (cold plunge).
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What shall we do, friend, with all these people; for, advancing step by step, we have imperceptibly got between the combatants, and, unless we can protect our retreat, we shall pay the penalty of our rashness — like the players in the palaestra who are caught upon the line, and are dragged different ways by the two parties.
Theaetetus
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Part of the adjacent tepidarium was also revealed, together with a furnace-house, service rooms and part of the palaestra or exercise-yard with the remains of a cockfighting pit.
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Every rib in the round body was discernible; yet the leanness was the healthful reduction so strained after in the palaestrae.
Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
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We laid out a third trench 3 m east of the second trench in order to further investigate the large central room of the northern series as well as to uncover its southern wall and part of the large central courtyard (tentatively identified as the palaestra of the complex).
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Near the Theater Report 7
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Found in the south-east palaestra or exercise court of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 1545, it was heavily restored and fitted out as a fountain by the Farnese.
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This piece of masonry, 7.3 m. high, formed part of the palaestra of the public baths, the plan of which is laid out in front of the Museum.
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Pro dimidia enim marca ludum experiar, ultra hoc petens, ut si vivus de palaestra evasero, victum a quocumque vestrum recipiam dum vixero: quia, sicut dicitur, “Majorem caritatem nemo habet, quam ut animam suam ponat suis pro amicis.”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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The palaestra lost, the forum, the gymnasium, the course?
Poems and Fragments
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It was not only the Olympic Games, but whenever somebody would be in the gymnasium or the palaestra they used to apply olive oil on their body surfaces.
Olives and People, Past and Present
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Maybe 5 minites we got the destination, this is the front view of the palaestra.
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Not the cadent rattle of the thin cylindrical drums the Trivigauntis used, but the steady _thumpa-thumpa-thump_ of Vironese war drums, drums that suggested the palaestra's big copper stew-pot whenever she saw them, war drums beating out the quickstep used to draw up troops in order of battle.
Exodus From The Long Sun
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Here the place of meeting, which is also a palaestra, is quite forgotten, and the boys play a subordinate part.
Laches, or Courage
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The gymnasium included a large palaestra surrounded by columns, and the baths in the east wing were fully equipped during the reign of Trajan when the emperor had the roof repaired.
