Daemones discovers, from the contents of the wallet, that Palaestra is his daughter.
In the Palaestra Tanno cheerfully presented Murmex to some of his favorite prize-fighters and he stood talking with them, they appraisingly conning the son of Murmex Frugi.
Whether the habits of the palaestra are suitable to them is more doubtful, for the ordinary gymnastic is a sleepy sort of thing, and if left off suddenly is apt to endanger health.
The rule of the Spartan Palaestra is, Strip or depart; but you are like the giant Antaeus, and will not let me depart unless I try a fall with you.
The square or oblong peristyle in a palaestra should be so formed that the circuit of it makes a walk of two stadia, a distance which the Greeks call the [Greek: diaulos].
And when Critias told him that I was the person who had the cure, he looked at me in such an indescribable manner, and was going to ask a question; and then all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare!
The palaestra was the place at Athens where lovers enjoyed the greatest freedom.
In answer to a question of Socrates, the frequenters of the palaestratell him to expect the coming of young Charmides.
So again in the Lysis, Hippothales invites Socrates to enter the private palaestra of Miccus, where boys and men were exercising together on the feast-day of Hermes.
Sceparnio, looking off-stage, spies Ampelisca and Palaestra tossed about in a boat.
SCENE: The Palaestraof Taureas, which is near the Porch of the King Archon.
And at that moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare!
So I went into the palaestra of Taureas, which is over against the temple adjoining the porch of the King Archon, and there I found a number of persons, most of whom I knew, but not all.
The Palaestra Scientifica is a branch of this institution, the members being chiefly naturalists.
At the close of the sitting, the commander of our Expedition and the various members of the scientific commission were named associates of the Palaestra Scientifica.
To the list of palaestra scenes may be added those where Nike or another deity appears as patron of the palaestra watching the athletes,[1659] and scenes of ephebi washing or bathing in preparation for or after their contests.
So hadst thou seen A spring palaestra on the tender green.
Statues surrounded the hurriedly erected palaestra where the Ephebi every morning practised their nude, anointed bodies in racing, wrestling, and throwing the discus.
The bands to which the woman belonged were forced by the cavalry into the palaestra and the neighbouring Maander, and kept there until Eumedes brought re-enforcements and compelled the Gauls to surrender.
Here, near the entrance of the Forum Triangulare, a Palaestra for gymnastic exercises (C) was built, with funds left for public purposes by a benevolent citizen.
Southwest corner of the palaestra of the Stabian Baths, showing part of the colonnade and wall decorated with stucco reliefs.
Two doors admit the visitor from the palaestra to the series of bath rooms, one of them opening from the north end of the colonnade.
The rooms at the southeast corner (f, g) were no doubt intended for dressing rooms for the palaestra and the plunge bath.
While the Palaestra had its original length, the entrance, which is now nearer the east end, was at the middle of the north side.
View of the Central Baths, looking from the Palaestrainto the tepidarium.
View of the Central Baths, looking from the palaestra into the tepidarium.
In the open space between the Theatre, the Forum Triangulare, and the Palaestra there is a deep reservoir for water (D), square on the outside and round within.
A rear door connected the storeroom with the small area of irregular shape between the Palaestra and the Theatre.
SCENE: A newly-erected Palaestraoutside the walls of Athens.
Lucius, delighted with this news, returns to Hipparchus' house and in the absence of his host and hostess makes love to Palaestra with the purpose of persuading the maid to acquaint him with her mistress' magic powers.
Lucius then prevails upon Palaestra to let him attempt the same transformation.
A few nights later Palaestra fulfills her promise by leading Lucius at dead of night to the door of her lady's bedroom where through a crack he can watch her proceedings.
Palaestra soothingly assures him that the antidote is simple, just a meal of roses, and if her dearest will pass the night quietly in the stable, in the morning she will gather the flowers and recover her Lucius.
At the close of a night of revel, Lucius persuades Palaestra to show him her mistress at her magic rites.
They were hunters and open-air people, they reproduced the life of the savage or natural man with artificial improvements, but when they came into the palaestra they were nowhere at all.
They were mostly townsmen living in a country of dense cultivation and beholden to the gymnasium and the palaestrafor their recreation, the noblest outcome of which was the Olympian meeting.
But should the Lady Thyone speak of the Eumenides who pursued me, tell her that they had probably again extended their arms toward me, but when I return to-morrow from the palaestra I shall be freed from the terrible beings.
To-morrow I shall stand in the palaestra before my comrades, and explain to them what a malicious accident deceived me, and with me this whole great city.
