A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 468
in the other tiierniie, the tepid bathswere small basins arranged around the edge ofthe gi-eat hall of the tepidarium. The caldariumor warm bath gave its name in like manner tothe halls in which such baths were contained,which were in the large thermre circular andcrowned with a cupola ; but this… … C. .^ 5 5 5^ = c; 5 ii P.^ THERMOSTAT tangle, -wliile another wild batli, the swimmingbasin, is entirely out of doors in this and in theother public thermic of Pompeii, an arrangementwliieh suits the nuudi warmer elimate of tiiatcity. The laconicum or sweat bath tlitlersgreatly in ditierent…
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