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  1. Diaulos
    ancient Greek athletics, a running race of 400 meters or two stades.
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  2. diaulos
    (from the article `Olympic Games`) ...also came to refer to the track on which the race was held and is the origin of the modern English word stadium. In 724 a two-length race, the ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/44

  3. Diaulos
    peristyle round the great court of the palaestra, described by Vitruvius, which measured two stadia (1,200 ft.) in length, on the south side this peristyle had two rows of columns, so that in stormy weather the rain might not be driven into the inner part. The word was also used in ancient Greece fo...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_architecture

  4. Diaulos
    [architecture] Diaulos, in ancient Greek architecture, was a peristyle round the great court of the palaestra, described by Vitruvius, which measured two stadia (1,200 ft.) in length, on the south side this peristyle had two rows of columns, so that in stormy weather the rain might not be dr...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaulos_(architecture)

  5. Diaulos
    [running race] Diaulos (Greek: Δίαυλος, English translation: "double pipe") was a double-stadion race (ca. 400 m.) introduced in the 14th Olympiad of the ancient Olympics (724 BC). Scholars debate whether or not the runners had individual "turning" posts for the return leg of the race...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaulos_(running_race)

  6. Diaulos
    peristyle round the great court of the palaestra, described by Vitruvius, which measured two stadia (1,200 ft.) in length, on the south side this peristyle had two rows of columns, so that in stormy weather the rain might not be driven into the inner part. The word was also used in ancient Greece fo...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_architecture

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