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Next to this "xystus" and to the double colonnade should be laid out the uncovered walks which the Greeks term [Greek: paradromides] and our people "xysta," into which, in fair weather during the winter, the athletes come out from the "xystus" for exercise.— The Ten Books on Architecture
Behind the "xystus" a stadium, so designed that great numbers of people may have plenty of room to look on at the contests between the athletes I have now described all that seemed necessary for the proper arrangement of things within the city walls CHAPTER XII HARBOURS, BREAKWATERS, AND SHIPYARDS 1.— The Ten Books on Architecture
There are other similar instances as in the case of "xystus," "prothyrum," "telamones," and some others of the sort.— The Ten Books on Architecture
From the portico we ascend by three steps to the xystus.— Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
xiii. 5 13] {xusto}--the xystus, "a covered corridor in the gymnasium where the athletes exercised in winter."— The Economist
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