Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Xystus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

XYS'TUS or -UM (ξυστός or -όν). Amongst the Greeks, a covered corridor in the gymnasium (see the plan p. 324. T T) where the athletes exercised in winter. Vitruv. v. 11. 4. Id. vi. 7. 5.

2. Amongst the Romans, an open walk or terrace in a garden, amidst flower-beds edged with box. Plin. Ep. ii. 17. 17. Id. v. 6. 19. Suet. Aug. 72. Phaedr. ii. 5.