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Xystus
From LoveToKnow 1911
XYSTUS, the Greek architectural term for the covered portico of the gymnasium, in which the exercises took place during the winter or in rainy weather; this was known as the vv-7-Os apoµos, ...
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.
xystusXystus derives from the Greek xustos, meaning smooth, and describes a place for exercise. In the gardens of Pompeii, the xystus was a place for horticulture.Example 1: Augustus Caesars gardens, Example 2: Gardens in the Roman Provinces
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[from Latin xystus, from Greek xustos, literally: smoothed, polished (area), from xuein to scrape, make smooth] ...
 See also: Portico, Greek, Roman, Flower, Gothic
  
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