— 
becaule 2 
tte th sa eS iit +e the liiceets of the 
— ded on iy’ ot in ponderous flefhinefs thich 
unfitted him Sr ¢ engesing in any other conteft. The regi- 
men required for keeping up his corpulency, fo neceflary 
or the defence of his bones againit the weight of blows, 
was altogether incompatible with the life o Pia ; a life 
of h hardfhip and inequality, and sank aaeiie expoted to the 
want of reft, of provifions, and of flee Thefe were the 
gymnattic SBE gE in which the Grecian youth were 
trained with fo much care, and to which they applied with 
* much seston: But befides thefe fimple fports, there 
- two others formed of their various combination. 
g and boxing ; 
the es were united ; 
oxer, it was soup 
ee 
2. 
ms 
ao 
“A 
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o 
=> 
A 
g, 
_ is exercifed; fuch are wreftling, running, dancing, the’ 
6 ¥ M- 
GYMNIC, Gymuicus, 
ercifes of the body. : 
ymnic games, /udi gymnici, are thofe wherein the ody’ 
fomething belonging to he * ie 
of the lance, quoit-playing, &c. ee 
Thefe made hy chief diverfions of the Olympic, eich . 
Pythian, and Ifthmian folemnities; bein 1g, called by the - 
Greeks oe iaGaov, and the Latins guinguertium. See "Pas 
TATEL 
GYMNOCARPI, in Botany, from yur, m naked; and 
rosy fruit, “the fecond of the two great fe€tions in Per. 
fon’ s lyftem of Fungi, and by far the moft important and 
others, the moft ex~ 
I pe te The ying “ienheies or ae 
cation and pn of. aig not neceffary to be chases i a: refolving itfelf into a jelly, as in Clail * 
thofe. -contende fimple fe ftrength and BS 4 
agility, and which was {carcely ceaeesiee with the ftudy Veosctck Hymenium pape 
any other than the ais profeflion. See each of the Boe with the minute ries as in 4: Spe tales 
articles above-mention o Boletus, Clavaria, ee » XC. 
ies GYMNEMA, i in awe, sa ve 3. Nematathecii. piped fa fe or fibrous habits a 
_ athread or flamen ; the ftamens g dee a cd ict Dematium, Erineum, R peedirealy &e. This laft ine 
‘crown, ufual in the tribe to wl gs. Brown rather a {weeping one, and congrety ats. Yar 
ifclep. 22. Prod. Nov, Holl. v. 1. a a ape d order, productions, whofe orders are 
ia Digynia. Nat. Ord. Contorte, Linn. Apocinca, on. Some botanifts B hers “Cofre 
Lichenes, according as they neat ves it chofen one 
a es Corolla fomewhat t pi tcher-fhaped, appa ad or ano for their particular ft ) 
orifice moftly crowned with five little GYM LADUS, from yuo, naked, and suse 
ferted into its fmufes. Crown of — pana wanting Slender branch ; {fo rae k, in allufion to the 
Anthers ter bya rane. Maffes of pollen erect, naked, and. feemingly dead, re of its branches i 
attac ce: “ihe Hee bafe. follicles flender, fmooth, § winte ich has induced ti rench fester eS ada to 
omofe : call it Chicot, or Stump-tree. 
and generally twining. 
Un ey ewe 
fellle. fs oblor : cas abeieaiciad: do 
why. 
_ fegments, 
Female. 
Tiluftr t. 823. "Schreb Juff. (Bon 
a % 5 107. t. 42. yeas uf At: peg’ 
al, 
i Was he ee se 
aped, Snferted into 
ents of t 
its tube. Stam. Filament Be nas girs 
the at oF thee part of the tube, five of them rather the te 
much hig than the corolla 5" 
rter 
lanceolate, “bluntifh, pe 
than th 
2c. Pip. 
; “Fea gah bot a Core like the male. 
uperior, ong ; e fhort; ftigma obtuf 
long, the : pulpy, of eve cell 
five-cleft. Petals sient 
as Ch. Male 
male. ar 
: bale ass ee 
Calyx and Corolla like the 
of feveral Seeds 
