How To Use Rigil In A Sentence
- John Trigilio, Jr., PhD, ThD, president of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy and co-author of Catholicism For Dummies, has written in that vein: Archive 2005-10-01
- The basic equipment of an athlete consisted only of an unguent jar (aryballos) of oil and a scraping instrument (strigil) for anointing and cleaning himself, though for various events a competitor might need boxing thongs, jumping weights, discus, or javelin. The Ancient Olympics (1996)
- After their competition the steamy athletes scraped off the oily mess with a strigil, which looks something like a sickle.
- Along with the Ionic capital's circling volute and the repeating Greek key pattern, strigilation is one of the three most popular patterns of classical art. Forged in the Classical Tradition
- Romans would sit and perspire, and their skin was scraped with a curved metal tool called a strigil.
- A student would use a strigil or bronze scraper to remove the olive oil he had applied.
- They are made by the same Belgian manufacturer, Frigilunch NV.
- Their simultaneous comprehension of immortal hope and carnal funk - of Zeus and strigils - persists, through their art.
- After this a slave would rub olive oil into the visitor's skin and then scrap it off with a strigil.
- The strigillation, or curvilinear fluting, of the frieze immediately below the Pantheon-domed roof is a type of enrichment associated with classical sarcophagi.
