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Xystus was a Greek architectural term for the covered portico of the gymnasium, around which a exercises took place in a period of the wintertime or even in showery weather condition. A Romans applied the term to the garden hike before of the porticoes, which was divided into flowerbed using borders of box, and to the promenade between rows of big trees.
"Xystus" wwhen utilized, by extension, to refer to a totally building containing the gymnasium & portico, as in the xysti of Jerusalem and Elis.
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