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γυμνα?́σ-ιον [α^], τό,
I. in pl., bodily exercises, Pi.Fr.129.4, Hdt.9.33, Hp.Art.58, Pl.R.539d,etc.
2. metaph., γυμνάσιον γράφειν write an exercise or essay, Gal.19.17.
II. gymnastic school, E.Ph.368, Antipho 3.2.3, Pl.Criti.117c(pl.),etc.; ἐκ θἠμετέρου γυμνασίου from our school, Ar.V. 526: pl., γ. τὰ ἱππόκροτα the hippodrome, E.Hipp.229 (anap.).
b. οἱ ἀπὸ γ. in Egypt, those who have received training as ἔφηβοι, i.e. the Hellenized inhabitants of the μητροπόλεις, PFlor.179.24 (i A. D.), etc.
2. generally, school, “ἐν γυμνασίοις Ἀκαδημίας” Epicr.11.11; “ἐν Ὁμηρείῳ γ.” Epigr.Gr.860 (Chios); “γ. ἀρετῆς” Luc.Nigr.19; of a philosophic school, “ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ γ.” Pl.Grg.493d, cf. “ὁ ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ γ.” Dam.Pr.399: metaph., “γῆ γ. ζωῆς” Secund.Sent.15.
3. in collective sense, the youths who attend the school, IPE2.299.8 (Panticapaeum).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Antiphon, Second Tetralogy, 2.3
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