Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 174
nt adopted in the Thermae, asshown by the ruins of those of Titus, Caracalla, andDiocletian at Rome, and of the public baths at Pompeii,may be thus described: f— On entering the colossal edifice, which was as largeas—or, perhaps, larger than—the new palace at West-minster, the bather found himself… … Kcmainb of the L^t which extended round three sides of an open court, oratrium., the wholeforming the vesti-bule of the baths,where the servantsbelonging to theestablishment, andthe attendants onthe bathers, waited.Here, too, the bal-neator, or keeper ofthe baths, receivedthe gratuities of…
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