. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. elled reader some notion of these prodigious piles, I will confine myobservations to the latter, as the greatest in extent and as the best preserved; for, thoughit be entirely stripped of its jiillars, statues, and ornaments, both internal and external, vetits walls still stand, and its constituent parts and princi])al apartments are evidentlv distin-i^uishable. The length of the thermre was 1840 ft., its breadth 1476. At each end weretwo temples; o
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. elled reader some notion of these prodigious piles, I will confine myobservations to the latter, as the greatest in extent and as the best preserved; for, thoughit be entirely stripped of its jiillars, statues, and ornaments, both internal and external, vetits walls still stand, and its constituent parts and princi])al apartments are evidentlv distin-i^uishable. The length of the thermre was 1840 ft., its breadth 1476. At each end weretwo temples; one to Apollo, and another to Esculapius, as the tutelary deities {genii tvte-litres) of a place sacred to the improvement of the mind and the care of the body. Thetwo other temples were dedicated to the two protecting divinities of the Antonine family,Hercules and Bacchus. In the principal building were, in the first place, a grand circularvestibule, with four halls on each side, for cold, tejiid, warm, and steam baths : in the;!entre was an immense scpiare for exercise, when the weather was unfavourable to it in the CiiAP. n. ROMAN, 97 ^t^. Fi«. l, open air ; beyond it a great liall, wliere 1600 marble seats were placet! for tbe convenienceof tlie batbers : at eacb end of tills hall were libraries. This building terminated on bothsides in a court surrounded with porticoes, with a spacious odeum for music, and in themiddle a spacious basin for swimming. Round this edifice were walks shaded by rows o(trees, particularly the plane; and in its front extended a gymnasium for running, wrestling,&c. in fine weather. The whole was bounded by a vast portico, opening into exedrce, orspacious halls, wliere the poets declaimed and philosopliers gave lectures to their immense fabric was adorned within and without with ])illars, stucco work, paintings,and statues. The stucco and paintings, tliough faintly indeed, are yet in many places per-ceptible. Pillars have been dug u
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