Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Conisterium

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

CONISTE'RIUM (κονίστρα). An apartment in the palaestra or gymnasium, the floor of which was covered over with fine sand (κόνις), or in which the bodies of the wrestlers were rubbed over with sand after being anointed. Vitruv. v. 11.