ocr: walls by youngsters depicting memorable contests between gladiatorial champions and between men and wild beasts. Alongside the amphitheater stands the large palaestra, main playground of the city. Itisa great rectangular athletic field with a huge swimming pool I in the center. Porticoes surrounded the field on three sides, and it was shaded by a double row of plane trees (whose existence has been deduced from the cavities left in the earth by their roots). Here the young men of the city periodically showed their prowess in racing, wrestling, boxing and swimming. These games were a Greek rathe ...
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