artistically-developed

Updated: May 24, 2025

Even the bodily exercises advanced from ball-playing, running, and fencing to the more artistically-developed Greek gymnastic contests; though there were not yet any public institutions for gymnastics, in the principal country-houses the palaestra was already to be found by the side of the bath-rooms.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Even the bodily exercises advanced from ball-playing, running, and fencing to the more artistically-developed Greek gymnastic contests; though there were not yet any public institutions for gymnastics, in the principal country-houses the palaestra was already to be found by the side of the bath-rooms.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy