Lexicographical Neighbors of Palestras
Literary usage of Palestras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hellenic History by George Willis Botsford (1922)
"2 Formerly rich men alone enjoyed such luxuries, but now " the people have built
at public cost a number of palestras, dressing rooms, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"The bathe all day full of chattering boys, and the palestras empty. II. Here it
is which makes in plenty W. Then you blame the living in agoras, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Society was Dot divided into rich classes enervated by luxury and poor classes
enfeebled by want The public palestras were schools of physical training for ..."
4. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1895)
"... ludas fieri de rege et regina, née arietes levan, palestras publicas." '
Lysons, in bis extracts from the Churchwardens' and Chamberlains' Accounts at ..."
5. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1860)
"... palestras ; a noble person, a commanding and prepossessing mien, which won
respect and inspired ..."
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