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|lshtext=<b>gymnăsĭum</b>: ii, n., =[[γυμνάσιον]]>,<br /><b>I</b> a [[public]] [[school]] [[among]] the Greeks for [[gymnastic]] exercises, a [[gymnasium]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit., Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 3; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 21; id. Ep. 2, 2, 13; Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 151; id. Rep. 3, 32; 4, 4: virgineum (in [[Sparta]]), Prop. 3, 14, 2; Ov. H. 16, 151; Cels. 5, 11; 15; Plin. Ep. 10, 40, 2; Quint. 2, 8, 3 al.—Comically: [[gymnasium]] flagri, qs. [[school]] for the [[scourge]], whipping-[[post]], a [[term]] of [[reproach]] applied to one [[who]] is [[often]] flogged, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 31; cf.: [[totus]] [[doleo]], ita me [[iste]] habuit [[senex]] [[gymnasium]], i. e. he has belabored me so, id. Aul. 3, 1, 5.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[public]] [[school]] [[among]] the Greeks, a highschool, [[college]]: omnia gymnasia [[atque]] omnes philosophorum scholae, Cic. de Or. 1, 13, 56; Liv. 29, 19, 12; Plin. Ep. 1, 22, 6; Juv. 3, 115: quae vix in gymnasiis et in otio Stoici probant, Cic. Par. prooem. 1.— Transf., of a [[college]]-[[building]] on [[Cicero]]'s Tusculan [[estate]]: cum ambulandi [[causa]] in [[Lyceum]] venissemus (id [[enim]] superiori gymnasio [[nomen]] est), etc., Cic. Div. 1, 5, 8; cf. id. Tusc. 2, 3, 9.