It seems to have been a common method of applying remedies to the auditory canal to warm them in a strigil and pour them in with it.
He had besides several callosities resembling scars, occasioned by an itching in his body, and the constant and violent use of the strigil [231] in being rubbed.
Footnote 231: The strigil was used in the baths for scraping the body when in a state of perspiration.
Towels and strigils were employed for rubbing and scraping after the anointing; the strigil was, as a rule, made of iron.
The guttus was a small vessel with a narrow neck adapted for dropping oil on the strigil to lubricate its working edge.
The strigil was a curved metal instrument used for scraping the oil and sand from the body after wrestling.
In one the athlete is represented handing his strigil to his slave, in the other the athlete stands alone, strigil in hand.
From an old woodcut] The strigil was by no means a blunt instrument, consequently its edge was softened by the application of oil which was dropped on it from a small vessel.
A boy emerging into manhood leaves his petasos and strigil and chlamys to Hermes, the god of games.
The Trojan heroes fall with smiles upon their lips; the athlete draws the strigil down his arm; the sons of Niobe lie stricken, beautiful in death.
The athlete, tall and stately, tired with healthy exercise, lifts one arm, and with his strigil scrapes away the oil with which he has anointed it.
The strigil was used in the baths for scraping the body when in a state of perspiration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strigil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
