- gymnasium
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gymnăsĭum, ii, n., =gumnasion, 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:II.
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.—Transf., a public school among the Greeks, a highschool, college:2.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.Gymnăsium, ii, f. (Gumnasion, dim. of Gumnas), name of a Greek maiden:Gymnasium mea,
Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 109.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.