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Sphaeristerium

（σφαιριστήριον). A court for the game of ball in the gymnasia and thermae. Σφαιριστική was the name of the art of playing at ball. See Pila.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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