He wants whatever Atticus may think proper for his "palaestra" and "gymnasium.". From Wordnik.com. [Life of Cicero Volume One] Reference
The palaestra lost, the forum, the gymnasium, the course?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
'I take it your palaestra stays open after normal hours?'. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
If there was a tomorrow for the palaestra and its pupils. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
"Horn is one of the boys at our palaestra," Silk told Bison. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
Inspired by the memory of games at the palaestra, she added. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
I saw it when we were going from the palaestra to the manteion. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
The palaestra lost, the forum, the gymnasium, the course?. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
I asked the piper to introduce me to the palaestra superintendent. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Cornelius and I went through the palaestra porch into the colonnade. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
A map of where their tent was, showing how it related to the palaestra. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
You see, a big, red-faced man came to the palaestra while you were away. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
The palaestra would be used as an auditorium by authors of celebratory odes. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
And at that moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare!. From Wordnik.com. [Charmides, or Temperance] Reference
Two centuries of Roman rule had not changed the atmosphere in any Greek palaestra. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
'You had no reason to think the girl was going into the palaestra against her will?'. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
It was shadeup, and he would be late at his palaestra; already Mother approached the bed. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
He was complaining that he had waited outside the palaestra for her, but she never came. '. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
From the palaestra came the low thunking sound of sand-filled punchbags being rapidly hit. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
His establishment comprised a small palaestra where his men were trained, and a menagerie. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
It's only that you make me feel very old and wise, just as the children at our palaestra do. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
'If Valeria went to the palaestra to hear Milo's poet, why has nothing ever been made of that?'. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Milo and I were leaving the palaestra when I saw her, and I wanted a drink, not hours of reading. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
'And you were unable to find anyone who saw them together at the palaestra the night Valeria died?'. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
For Aristophanes says of Socrates that he also walked the air and stole clothes from the palaestra. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
I think he could be anyone familiar with the palaestra — boxer, wrestler, even a pankration fighter. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
It is known that Socrates taught wherever he might happen to be, in the palaestra as well as elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
The lower building appeared to be a palaestra, with the usual large courtyard and side rooms for boxing practice. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Being peopled by brutes who gloried in these hard sports, the palaestra had its own atmosphere, one I did not like. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
A palaestra was where young men congregated and older men openly came to gape at their beauty and strength, hoping for more. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
'I assumed that was how he could get admittance to the palaestra — he looked like a retired boxer or pankration exponent, Falco. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Then more seriously, 'No, because whoever he was, I'm certain he drew her to the palaestra with sportsman's gossip about long jumps.'. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
The giant gave him time to grasp a set of thongs from bunches hanging on the palaestra wall; Cornelius scrambled to help bind them on. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
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