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TEPIDARIUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 636 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TEPIDARIUM , the See also:

TERM

term given to the warm (See also:

LEPIDUS

lepidus) See also:

bath-See also:

ROOM

room of the See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

BATHS

baths. There is an interesting example at See also:

POMPEII

Pompeii; this was covered with a semicircular See also:

BARREL (a word of uncertain origin common to Romance languages; the Celtic forms, as in the Gaelic baraill, are derived from the English)

barrel vault, decorated with reliefs in See also:

STUCCO (Ital. stucco, adapted from O.H.G. stucchi, crust, piece, patch, Ger. Stuck, piece, allied to stock)

stucco, and See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the room a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of square recesses or niches divided from one another by See also:

TELAMONES (Gr. reXaµwv, supporter, from rXitval, to bear)

Telamones. The tepidarium in the Roman thermae was the See also:

GREAT

great central See also:

hall round which all the other halls were grouped, and which gave the See also:

key to the plans of the thermae: it was probably the hall where the bathers first assembled See also:

prior to taking the See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold bath or passing through the various hot baths,of See also:

CARACALLA (or CARACALLUS), MARCUS A U R E L I U S ANTONINUS (186-217)

Caracalla, the See also:

Farnese See also:

Hercules, and the See also:

TORO

Toro Farnese, the two See also:

GLADIATORS (from Lat. gladius, sword)

gladiators, the sarcophagi of See also:

green See also:

BASALT

basalt now in the Vatican, and numerous other treasures, were found during the excavations by See also:

Paul III. in 1546, and transported to the Vatican and the museum at See also:

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