Usage examples (33)

• Suppose that at the palestra somebody hath all to-torn thee with his nails, and hath broken thy head.
• For many things there be, which we must conceit and apprehend, as though we had had to do with an antagonist at the palestra.
• By gymnastics the Greeks meant the physical training in the palestra, an open stretch of ground on the outskirts of the city.
• They seized children, adults, and mostly those who were engaged in the exercises of the palestra and gymnasium, but seldom attacked women.