Note 656 — Chapter V · EXERCISES OF YOUTH.
Reading edition
Vitruv. v. 11. Cf. on the Xystoi, Xenoph. Œconom. xi. 15.—Cicero, Acad. iv. 3; ad Att. l. 8. Of this covered walk Aristeas makes mention in a fragment of his Orpheus:—
Ἦν μοὶ παλαίστρα καὶ δρόμος
ξυστὸς πέλας.
Poll. ix. 43.