Dromos

The foot-race was the oldest of the Greek institutions, and in the first of the Olympiads the "dromos," a course of about 200 yards, was the only contest; but gradually the "dialos," in which the course was double that of the dromos, was introduced, and, finally, tests of endurance as well as speed were instituted in the long-distance races and the contests of racing in heavy armor, which were so highly commended by Plato as preparation for the arduous duties of a soldier. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The following rule was carved in stone at the stadium at Delphi, where the Pythian Games were held: "Wine is prohibited in the vicinity of the dromos," or race track. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From this central square of four pediments extends right and left one long colonnade, or dromos. ❋ James Finn (N/A)

Before he could extricate himself, the runners preceding the pageant returning the great god to his shrine, beat the multitude back from the dromos and once again Kenkenes was imprisoned by the hosts. ❋ Elizabeth Miller (N/A)

Though simple graves were always in use among the poorest folk, the commonest form of tomb at all periods is a rock-cut chamber entered by a door in one side, to which access is given by a shaft or sloping passage (_dromos_) cut likewise in the rock. ❋ Various (N/A)

The tomb itself was composed of two chambers, one immediately over the other, and approached by a long passage, like the dromos of rock-cut ❋ Mabel Bent (N/A)

The dromos, or avenue of sphinxes, was carpeted with palm and nelumbo leaves, and copper censers as large as caldrons had been set at equidistance from one another, and an unceasing reek of aromatics drifted up from them throughout the day. ❋ Elizabeth Miller (N/A)

The side Kenkenes approached sloped sharply from the dromos toward the river, and the rearmost spectators had small opportunity to behold the pageant. ❋ Elizabeth Miller (N/A)

It extended from Karnak to Luxor and, turning in a vast loop at the Nile front, countermarched over the dromos and ended at the tremendous white-walled temple of Amen. ❋ Elizabeth Miller (N/A)

Bull-fights were also among their sports; which were sometimes exhibited in the _dromos_, or avenue, leading to the temples, as at ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The temple of the Egyptians therefore consisted of a large complex of buildings and the temple precincts, the whole surrounded by a massive wall, and reached by a broad avenue (dromos) bordered by figures of sphinxes and rams. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The Egyptian temple is not an organic structure complete in itself; instead of unity there are the following distinct parts: dromos, enclosing wall, pylon, peristyle, hypostyle, and sekos. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The dromos of approach, the long avenue of sphinxes, the obelisks, and the pylons, are necessarily omitted from M. [Page 273] ❋ Unknown (1891)

What M. Naville actually found under the mounds of Maskhûtah was a peribolos wall, the site of a temple, a dromos, a camp, some ruins of a city, and a series of most ❋ Unknown (1891)

A dromos, now buried under twenty feet of débris, led from the pylon to the portico. ❋ Unknown (1891)

This one is a beehive-shaped construction of horizontal courses of masonry, with a stone-walled passage, the _dromos_, leading to the entrance door. ❋ Unknown (1890)

Still silently, when we had left our donkeys and were following the crowd up the dromos (Harry Snell actually with Enid, thanks to me and the wisdom of second thoughts), Cleopatra's eyes wandered over the Hathor-headed columns with their clinging colour; and over the portal with its brilliant mass of yellow, of dark Pompeian red, and the green-blue sacred to Hathor, whom Horus loved ❋ Unknown (1889)

This we remembered, not because it was imposing, or because it had a dromos of noble-faced sphinxes -- the only hawk-faced ones in Egypt -- or because of its prehistoric writings, on dark boulders; or because it had been used as ❋ Unknown (1889)

From the propylaia, a _dromos_, or sacred avenue, led to the double temple. ❋ Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1888)

At the beginning of the fourth century of our era it contained the _propylaia_, or pyramidal towers with a gateway, at each end of the _dromos_; one near the present church of ❋ Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1888)