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n. A public place in ancient Greece for training and practice in wrestling and other athletics.

n. Alternative form of palaestra.

n. A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.

n. A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.

n. In Greek antiquity:

n. A public place appropriated to exercises, under official direction, in wrestling and athletics, intended especially for the benefit of athletes training to contend in the public games.

n. Wrestling and athletics.

n. a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes

"Suppose a man to have been trained in the palestra and to be a skilful boxer-he in the fulness of his strength goes and strikes his father or mother or one of his familiars or friends; but that is no reason why the trainers or fencing-masters should be held in detestation or banished from the city-surely not."

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