coryceum

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

cōrycēum, i, n., = κωρυκεῖον,

the place in the palaestra where the athletae exercised themselves by striking a suspended sack filled with fig-grains, flour, sand , etc. (v. Lidd. and Scott, s. v. κώρυκος, II.), Vitr. 5, 11, 2; cf. 1. corycus.