xystum

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Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.

Horace, Epistles 1.34

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

xystum: i, v xystus.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

xystum, ī, n. et ordint xystus, ī, m. (ξυστός),
1 [chez les Grecs] portique couvert où s’exerçaient les athlètes : Vitr. Arch. 5, 11, 4 ; Tert. Apol. 38
2 [chez les Romains] promenade plantée d’arbres : Cic. Att. 1, 8, 2 ; Br. 10 ; Plin. Min. Ep. 2, 17, 17 ; Suet. Aug. 72.