[412] This was often done outside (Plato, Theait. 144 C). The oil-room (ἐλαιοθέσιον) of Vitruvius may be a later invention. This preliminary anointing was called ξηραλοιφεῖν. After the baths they rubbed themselves with a mixture of oil and water; this was χυτλοῦσθαι.
[413] See Xen. Banquet, 1. 7.
[414] Aristoph. Knights, 492.
[415] Philostratus, On Gymnastics, 56. It was usual to be dusted before wrestling.
[416] Xen. Banquet.
[417] For a good bathing scene, see Brit. Mus. Vase E 83. Also E 32.
[418] Philostratus, On Gymnastics, 57.
[419] Plato, Laws, 830 C.
[420] Particular Sophists attached themselves to particular gymnasia and palaistrai which they came to regard as their schools. Mikkos has already occupied the newly-built palaistra in the Lusis, 204 A. Cp. Plato’s position at the Akademeia and Aristotle’s at the Lukeion.
[421] αὐλή (Plato, Lusis, 206 E).