Lexicographical Neighbors of Palestrae
Literary usage of Palestrae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Health (1830)
"The Grecian palestrae were of a rectangular form, the four sides of which were
divid'ed into various halls for the purposes above mentioned—and into other ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It is, however, the amazing variety which exists in the superficial character of
the narrow region of palestrae that stamps the country as unique in the ..."
3. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1839)
"palestrae, public schools in which the athlete exercised themselves in wrestling i.
49. Palestine, province of Syria, i. 22. Palica,city of Sicily, ..."
4. The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome: A Companion Book for Students and by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1897)
"... or palestrae at each end of the tepidarium contained a portico of precious
columns, paved with polychrome mosaic, and opening on a court; ..."
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