10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PALESTRAE»
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palestrae in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
palestrae and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Athletic-cultural archaeological sites in the Greco-Roman ...
Adjacent to this was a sacred lake with a palestrae sometimes referred to as the "
Italian" palestrae. The ruins and outline are difficult to appraise and the palestrae
ground site serves as a garden with an extensive vegetable crop resembling ...
Russell L. Sturzebecker, 1985
2
The Seven Books of Paulus Aegineta: Translated from the ...
Commentary. Sprengel gives a long dissertation on the ' " ' sordes palestrae. (Ad
Dioscor. i, 36.) Suffice it to say in this place that it was collected from the bodies of
the wrestlers in the palestra, and consisted of oil, sweat, dust, and any powder ...
But the sordes in the palestra (which some call paton), has been described under
the head of sweat. The sordes in the ears is said to cure whitlows.
COMMENTARY. Sprengel gives a long dissertation on the sordes palestrae. (Ad
Dioscor. i, 36 ...
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The seven books of Paulus Ægineta
Commentary. Sprengel gives a long dissertation on the " ' sordes palestrae. (Ad
Dioscor. i, 36.) Suffice it to say in this place that it was collected from the bodies of
the wrestlers in the palestra, and consisted of oil, sweat, dust, and any powder ...
5
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, ...
They called the places allotted for these exercises, Palestrae, or Gymnasia:
which answers very near to our academies. Plato in his books of laws, after
having shown of what importance it was in war to cultivate the hands and feet,
adds, *that ...
6
Secrets of Pompeii: Everyday Life in Ancient Rome
They found their natural spaces in both gymnasiums and palestrae — we will see
shortly how important these function-specific Pompeian buildings were — as well
as in bath complexes and the porticoes around the public squares.
Emidio De Albentiis, Luisa Chiap, 2009
7
Water, as a Preservative of Health, and a Remedy in Disease: ...
The great extension of Y the buildings for the bath grew out of their connection
with the Palestrae; for until this time the gymnastic and martial exercises were
performed in some open space, such as the Campus Martius. The thermae were
...
The Grecian palestrae were of a rectangular form, the four sides of which were
divided into various halls for the purposes above mentioned — and into other
parts for the hot and cold baths, distinct for the two sexes, to which were annexed
the ...
Huge palestrae had long since been turned into improvised hospitals, all of them
jam-packed. And the rescue carts that had once plied so busily back and forth
between the Dead Waste and the palestrae—well, now they found only wretches
...
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The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences
Vitruvius makes us acquainted with the construction and arrangement of the
public baths, and their union with the palestrae, or those places in which the
Greeks and Romans exercised themselves in gymnastics, as wrestling, pitching
quoits, ...
John Davidson Godman, Isaac Hays, 1824
