Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Corycaeum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CORYCAE'UM. An apartment in the gymnasium and in large bathing establishments, such as the Roman Thermae, appropriated for playing a particular kind of game, which consisted in buffetting backwards and forwards a large sack (κώρυκος), filled with fig grains, olive husks, bran, or sand, suspended from the ceiling. Anthyll. ap. Oribas. Coll. Med. 6. Vitruv. v. 11.

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