| After this a slave would rub olive oil into the visitor's skin and then scrap it off with a strigil. |
| Galen generally followed the teaching of Hippocrates on gymnastics, and wrote a whole book on the merits of using the strigil. |
| The guttus was a small vessel with a narrow neck adapted for dropping oil on the strigil to lubricate its working edge. |
| So they carried a small jug of olive oil, which they rubbed onto their bodies and then scraped off with a metal scraper, called a strigil. |
| A boy emerging into manhood leaves his petasos and strigil and chlamys to Hermes, the god of games. |
| Romans would sit and perspire, and their skin was scraped with a curved metal tool called a strigil. |
