A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 475
as in the other therm.e, the tepid bathswere small basins arranged around the edge ofthe great hall of the tepidarium. The caldariumor warm liath gave its name in like manner tothe halls in which such baths were contained,which were in the large thermaj circular andcrowTied with a cupola; but this… … THERMOSTAT tiiiijjlo, wliilf iiiiiitlioi- ciild li.itli, tlic swimmingbasin, i.s entirely uut of lioms in tills ami in theother publie thernue of Ponii)eii, an arrangementwliieh suits the inm-li warmer eliniate of thatcity. The laeonienm or sweat bath (littersgreatly in ililierent establisimients…
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