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PALAESTRA (Gr. aaXaiarpa)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALAESTRA (Gr. aaXaiarpa) , the name apparently applied by the Greeks to two kinds of places used for gymnastic and athletic exercises. In the one See also:case it seems confined to the places where boys and youths received a See also:general gymnastic training, in the other to a See also:part of a gymnasium where the athletae, the competitors in the public See also:games,, were trained in See also:wrestling (aaXatav, to wrestle) and See also:boxing. The boys' palaeslrae were private institutions and generally See also:bore the name of the manager or of the founder; thus at See also:Athens there was a palaestra of Taureas (See also:Plato, Charmides). The See also:Romans used the terms gymnasium and palaestra indiscriminately for any See also:place where gymnastic exercises were carried on.

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