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Fl. Ind. Oce. 11195 and G. lucida is E. lucida, 1122. 
— trees or fhrubs with fimple, fmooth, fhining leaves, and 
‘catkins, growing in the fouthern parts of Jamaica 
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GYMN ARTHRIDIA, in the Hifory of Infells, ae 
ur 
ries or clafs of “ciate ok have foft and naked 
nifhed we finn 
ut as itis now well pam are none 
fuch, it is proper that the term zoophyte fhould no longer 
be retained. 
Under this clafs are comprehended the limax,.or the 
naked fnail, the lernea, medufa, aphrodita, amphitrite, &c. 
GYMNASIA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 
the Colchide: Diod. Sic. 1. 1 
Wesleir ones aie ‘Grex ASIARCIA, compounded of 
ur, and « Bia gow rament, in Antiquity, the matter or 
Sinete of a gym 
The Greeks iid n ae the gymnafiarcha Sigh the num- 
ber of magiltrates ; though his office was of onfidera- 
tion, as having the care of all the youth, who were ia to 
toes to be formed to exercifes of the body. 
He had two principal officers under him, Assos were to 
affift him in the it 
east was 
es, taking care they w 
time and ian, that _ they 
‘youth heir ftrength, 
nothing. were done that ere be injurious to their hess, 
Thefe had feveral fubaitern officers or 
rvants under 
: = for the fervice aad inftruction of the youth committed 
to them. 
U GYMNASIUM, a place fitted for the performing: ex- 
exciloes the body 
This word i 1s ‘eshte: Sota of yuprory naked; becaufe 
they anciently put off their clothes, to practife with the more 
freedom. 
Among the ancients, symnafium was.a public edifice s 
fined for exercife, and where pec were taught, and 
regularly difcip! ined. under proper matt 
f we may credit Solon in Lucian’s Anacharfis, ae Ci- 
cero, De Orat.. lib. ii. the Greeks were the ed sas ho had 
ong the Greeks, th monians ; 
the Atheiians, from whan the R. omans bor. 
There were phe principal gy pee hie the 
academy, where Plato neko z ws lyceum, noted, for 
Arittotle’s lectures ; and the cyndfarges, allotted. for for the 
populace. 
Vitruvius pee the ftruéture and form. of thea ancient 
fi y 
gymnatia, lib. v. cap. 11. They were- mnafia, 
becaute chanpions performed naked; and_paleitres 
Hing, which was one of the molt ufual exercifes. 
'R komans Fai alfo called them sherme, 
hagnice made a principal. part of the. 
s that y did si riot perform their exercifes. quite 
chants of in the ancien’ 
Soy arch 
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M. Burette, after Vitruvius, recites no lefs than t twelve, viz, 
1. The exterior poriicos, where the philofophers, public 
mathematicians, phyficians 8, 2 and other ‘virtuofi, read tr 
tu 
ances. 2. he elem where the youth aflembled very 
early, to are thei ercifes epee without any {pe 
tators. 3 crgcom, or gymnaflerion, a nd 
of w hey fppedy “iter to —_— or exer- 
cife. 4. The por by tum, alipt 
8. Large unpaved alley met he 
between the ait and the walls wherewit 
was furrounded. 9. The syfi, which were pees 
wreftlers in apes or bad weather. 10. Other 
» Ot 
open tted for fusmanes and fine weather, 
of which were quite open | with 
11. The baths, confifti 
Peon of. yas ahs whole names dittinguithed theit 
Fiat nétions. 
As = the kinds of exercifes practifed in the gy nnalidy 
they may be reduced to two general claffes, as they | depend 
either on the aGion of the body alone, or as they cy 8 ire 
external ageits or phen ee ‘The former 
two By ice and paleffrice. - 
The ore heflice comprehended, 1 pafticey 
or the art of tumbling. 5 Sper iWice, or teams, ine 3 
all the exercifes with ae or balls. i ae 
paleftrice comprifed all exercifes under the end 
nation palajira; as wrefllingy boxing, pancratia, bo 
1g Me yes throwing ibe Ese ‘the exer af of jee 
th: e Aeop, denoninated by t e Greeks 7x7 
which confifted in relling an iren ee five or &x feet in 
diameter, ae with tron’ rings, the noife of which me rng 
the people to give way, afforded them alfo an se 
Both ‘ftrength and ficill awere re a in directing this son 2.4 
be if fa i 
jumerat inte forts 0 re 
GyMNasres, Po oe the Ancients, a 
are os sei to the 
GY FMNASTICS, Cran or "he oon 
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