The Xyste was a place planted with Trees, and surrounded with Portico’s on every side: These Portico’s were of two sorts.
There was one double which was set against the Bodies of the Lodgings, to which the double Portico of the Peristyle was joyned.
The Simple Portico’s had two Wings, under these Simple Portico’s there were hollow Ways, where they performed their Exercises; the rest of the Portico was raised to the right and the left, for those that had a mind to Walk while the rest performed their Exercises, in the hollow ways.
The Place which was compassed with these three Portico’s, was planted with Trees, which made Allies, where the Wrestlers exercised in Winter, when it was fair Weather.
The Stadium was on the Side of the Peristyle and the Xyste. It was an Alley of 90 Perches; on each Side it had many Steps or Degrees, which made a sort of a long Theater bending in at both ends; these Steps or Degrees were made for the convenience of seeing them that Run.
CHAP. II.
Of Private Buildings.