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gymnăsĭum , ii, n., =γυμνάσιον,
I.a public school among the Greeks for gymnastic exercises, a gymnasium.
I. 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.—
II. 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.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (15):
    • Plautus, Asinaria, 2.2
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 3.3
    • Plautus, Epidicus, 2.2
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 4.1
    • Plautus, Aulularia, 3.1
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.13
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 1.22.6
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 5.11
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 15
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 29, 19.12
    • Cicero, De Republica, 3.32
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.5
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.15
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.3
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 8.3
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