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thermae
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Thermae \Ther"m[ae]\, n. pl. [L. See Thermal.] Springs or baths of warm or hot water.
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n. springs or baths of warm or hot water
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In ancient Rome, thermae (from Greek θερμός thermos, "hot") and balneae (from Greek βαλανεῖον balaneion) were facilities for bathing. Thermae usually refers to the large imperial bath complexes, while balneae were smaller-scale facilities, public or private, that existed in great numbers throughout Rome.
Most Roman cities had at least one, if not many, such buildings, which were centres not only for bathing, but socializing. Roman bath-houses were also provided for private villas, town houses, and forts. They were supplied with water from an adjacent river or stream, or more normally, by an aqueduct. The water would be heated by a log fire before being channelled into the hot bathing rooms. The design of baths is discussed by Vitruvius in De Architectura.
Thermae may refer to:
- Thermae, the building that housed ancient Roman public baths
- Termini Imerese, Thermae Himerenses or Thermae Himeraeae, in ancient Sicily
- Thermae Bath Spa, a modern spa built next to the Roman Baths in Bath, England
- Thermae Selinuntiae or Thermae Selinuntinae, was the classical name of Sciacca in ancient Sicily
- Thermae Romae, a Japanese manga and feature film
Usage examples of "thermae".
A garrison bathhouse is, of course, nowhere near as opulent as any of the thermae in any real Roman city, but even this one was furnished with pools and basins and fountains of water of varying temperatures, from icy cold to tepid to comfortably warm to near-scalding hot.
However, like all the better-class thermae, this one was equipped with small but comfortably furnished exedria waiting rooms, and I installed Monkey in one that contained a couch.
Durostorum, to take refreshing advantage of its fine thermae, to rest myself and Velox in comfortable quarters and to feed us both on nutriments superior to what we had so far been foraging.
We found a hospitium that was patronized by the wealthier visiting merchants and their families, so it was well enough appointed that it even contained separate thermae for men and for women.
In the thermae of my houses, the guests found every nicety of appointment, right down to Magaleion unguent for the skin and rose-and-cinnamon pastilli for the breath.
The approach to the Thermae of Titus was blocked by litters, some heavy enough to be borne by eight matched slaves and large enough for company.
Within the entrance of the Thermae was a marble court, where better known philosophers discoursed on topics of the day, each to his own group of admirers.
There was not much risk of informers in the Thermae, but a man never knew who his enemies were.
Six women in a group were answering greetings, Marcia in their midst, but no man in the Thermae looked at them a moment longer than was necessary to return the wave of the hand with which Marcia greeted every one before walking down the steps into the plunge.
It had its own great aqueducts to carry water for its fountains, for the gardens and for the imperial baths that were as magnificent, if not so large, as the Thermae of Titus.
Pompeii converted into baths, and you will then form a notion of the size of the imperial thermae of Rome.
But when I had seen this noble phalanx and company descending from the Capitol with many infantry, and had viewed all the bravery of the cars and the ediles, dressed in the old fashion, and had seen Senhor Giulio Cesarino pass with the standard of the city of Rome, on a horse with trappings covered with a white coat of arms and black brocade, I at once turned my horse towards Monte Cavallo, and thus went riding along the Thermae road pondering over many things of the olden times, in which I then felt myself to be more than in the present.
In Roman architecture the plans of the building, where the vaults were of considerable span and the thrust therefore very great, were so arranged as to provide cross-walls, dividing the aisles, as in the case of the Basilica of Maxentius, and, in the Thermae of Rome, the subdivisions of the less important halls, so that there were no visible buttresses.
An old abbey on the site of Gallo-Roman thermae, and she would walk into the court-yard described and up into the half-round hall where you can sit on the shallow well of steps and look at the six tapestries.