Sentence example with the word 'strigil'

strigil

Last update: September 14, 2015


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The hinder abdominal segments in the male show a curious asymmetrical arrangement, the sixth segment bearing on its upper side a small stalked plate (strigil) of unknown function, furnished with rows of teeth.   [Please select]

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] [Illustration: ATHLETE USING THE STRIGIL (APOXYOMENUS) (Vatican Gallery, Rome) Marble copy of the bronze original by Lysippus, a sculptor of the fourth century B.   [Please select]

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Some men, after their games, were scraping their sweating bodies with the strigil.   [Please select]

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He was scraping the oil and dust from his body with a strigil.   [Please select]

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A hundred pictures were floating in Charmides' mind--Phidias, Zeus, Creon with the strigil, his own little Hermes, the strange people in the fair, the marble Apollo under the sculptor's tent.   [Please select]

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