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Sentence Examples
Xystus was the Greek architectural term for the covered portico of the gymnasium, in which the exercises took place during the winter or in rainy weather.
Examples from Classical Literature
The xystus was a level piece of ground, in front of a portico, divided into flower-beds of various shapes by borders of box.
In Rome this custom prevailed, at least since the pontificates of xystus and Telesphorus.
Then they crossed the xystus to the peristyle, and went along a carpeted corridor to the atrium.
