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What is a palaestra?

What is a palaestra? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A public area in ancient Greece and Rome dedicated to the teaching and practice of wrestling and other sports; a wrestling school, a gymnasium. [from 15th c.]
  2. An arena for literal or figurative combat; a battlefield. [from 15th c.]
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Leave the forum, the palaestra, the race-course, and gymnasium?
Here stood a statue of the patron divinity of the palaestra.
And at that moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare!
Thereupon I led Ctesippus into the palaestra, and the rest followed.
My habit is to buy pieces which I can use to decorate a place in my palaestra, in imitation of lecture-halls.
Sceparnio, looking off-stage, spies Ampelisca and palaestra tossed about in a boat.

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