Meanings of palaestra in English

Inside a palaestra, the peristyle ought to be laid out as described above.

His impassioned eloquence brought the sun-bathed palaestra before one with a magic of representment.

My whole life was spent in the baths and the palaestra, or in gay feasting.

The beauty of the palaestra, and the beauty of the artist's workshop, reacted on one another.

She stepped on the cold sands of the palaestra and glanced up at the temple steps.

And at that moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare!

The spirit of metaphysics puts on the human form; and Dialectic walks the streets and contends in the palaestra.

Here the place of meeting, which is also a palaestra, is quite forgotten, and the boys play a subordinate part.

Since the day was warm, I went outside to the palaestra; here the athletically inclined were doing exercises and playing games.

Thus no Roman was thought manly who could not swim, and every Greek exercised in the athletic sports of the palaestra.

Statues surrounded the hurriedly erected palaestra where the Ephebi every morning practised their nude, anointed bodies in racing, wrestling, and throwing the discus.

In the Lysis and Charmides the youths are the central figures, and frequent allusions are made to the place of meeting, which is a palaestra.

In such boyish dreaming the soul learns to do and dare, hardens and supples itself, and puts on youthful beauty; for here is its palaestra.

The guide forced a path for him through carriages, litters, and whole throngs of slaves and common people, who had assembled before the neighbouring palaestra.

Without a single green leaf on his head, he walked, leaning on the Egyptian's arm, into the palaestra, which was diagonally opposite to his house.

Thereupon I and Ctesippus went towards the Palæstra, and the rest followed.