The corpus record

πᾰλαίστρα

palaistra · ἡ

wrestling-school

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Where it lives

Lysis 2 · 2.88/10k
Charmides 2 · 2.41/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Theaetetus 2 · 0.89/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

wrestling-school

wrestling-school, δρόμον καὶ π. ποιησάμενος Hdt. 6.126, cf. Hp. Art. 4: in pl., E. El. 528, Ar. Ra. 729, etc.; εἰς παλαίστραν φοιτῆσαι Pl. Grg. 456d; πέμπουσιν εἰς διδασκάλων μαθησομένους καὶ γράμματα καὶ μουσικὴν καὶ τὰ ἐν παλαίστρᾳ X. Lac. 2.1.

Κερκυόνος π., of the spot where Cercyon slew his victims, B. 17.26, Paus. 1.39.3.

II school

metaph., school, ἡ Ἀλεξάνδρου π. Plu. Demetr. 5; ἡ Σωκράτους π. Longin. 4.4.

In the wild

παλαίστρας · palaistras Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1371)
παλαίστρᾳ · palaistrai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4913)
παλαίστρας · palaistras Epictetus, Discourses 4.11 (DIORISIS sentence 7196)
παλαίστραις · palaistrais Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 282)
παλαίστρην · palaistrēn Herodotus, Histories 6.126.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6930)
παλαίστραν · palaistran Plato, Charmides 153

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Where it came from

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