{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140455.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140455.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140455.htm","text":"Those who are taught the civil laws must not adopt the customs of the Gentiles, nor be induced to go to the theatre, nor to keep what are called Cylestras, nor to wear clothing contrary to the general custom; and this holds good when they begin their training, when they reach its end, and, in short, all the time of its duration. If any one from this time shall dare to do contrary to this canon he is to be cut off.\nAncient Epitome of Canon LXXI.\nWhoever devotes himself to the study of law, uses the manner of the Gentiles, going to the theatre, and rolling in the dust, or dressing differently to custom, shall be cut off.\nLiddell and Scott identify \u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1 with \u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03b9\u03bd\u03b4\u03ae\u03b8\u03c1\u03b1 ,which they define as \u201ca place for horses to roll after exercise,\u201d and note that it is a synonym of \u1f00\u03bb\u03b9\u03bd\u03b4\u03ae\u03b8\u03c1\u03b1. But it is interesting to note that \u1f00\u03bb\u03af\u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 is \u201ca rolling in the dust, an exercise in which wrestlers rolled on the ground.\u201d\nHefele says that Balsamon and Zonaras have not been able rightly to explain what we are to understand by the forbidden \u201cCylestras,\u201d but I think Johnson is not far out of the way when he translates \u201cnor to meddle with athletic exercises.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Ca...","type":"page"}