Usage examples (10)

• There are other similar instances as in the case of "xystus," "prothyrum," "telamones," and some others of the sort.
• "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 portico we ascend by three steps to the xystus.
• The viridarium, or xystus, surrounded with spacious porticoes, was once filled with the choicest flowers, and refreshed by the grateful murmur of two fountains.