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 176
made use of instruments, called strigiles, to scrape off THE BATHER AND HIS ATTENDANTS. 173 the perspiration, much in the same way as we areaccustomed, says Ramsay, to scrape the sweat off ahorse with a piece of iron hoop, after he has run a heat,or comes in from violent exercise. Persons of… … Folding himself in his light bathing-robe, the bathernow returned to the tepidarium, where he was anointedby slaves (called unctores and aliptae) from vials of gold,alabaster, or crystal, filled with the choicest unguentscollected from all quarters of the world. Among theoils in use were the…
Architecture, Greek · Architecture, Roman
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