. The life of the Greeks and Romans. kind of vaulting by presumingthat metal sticks were placed in the interior to support theceiling ; Hirt, however, thinks that the lightness of the materialis sufficient to account for the difficulty. After having passedthrough the cella solearis one entered the apodyterium (B), behindwhich lay the chief hall—the ephebeum (C) (compare the BATHS OF CAR AC ALL A IN ROME. 405 gymnasium of Ephesos, Fig. 154, C), by Roman authors also calledxystus. Eight colossal granite columns, one of which now standsin the square S. Trinita in Florence, carried the intersectin
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. kind of vaulting by presumingthat metal sticks were placed in the interior to support theceiling ; Hirt, however, thinks that the lightness of the materialis sufficient to account for the difficulty. After having passedthrough the cella solearis one entered the apodyterium (B), behindwhich lay the chief hall—the ephebeum (C) (compare the BATHS OF CAR AC ALL A IN ROME. 405 gymnasium of Ephesos, Fig. 154, C), by Roman authors also calledxystus. Eight colossal granite columns, one of which now standsin the square S. Trinita in Florence, carried the intersectingvaults of the ceiling (see view of the interior, Fig. 423) : thelength of the whole room was 179 feet. Adjoining the twonarrow sides of the ephebeum, and separated from it by columnsonly, lay smaller rooms (Q Q) destined for spectators or wrestlers ;exedrce resembling niches (Z Z Z Z) lay on the longer sides ofthe hall. We next come to another hall (D) of equal length, inwhich lay the swimming-bath (piscina) ; this room also was. Fig. 423. adjoined by niches (Z Z) and other apartments for the spectators(E E). The rooms hitherto mentioned formed the chief part ofthe building, distinguished from the other divisions by its greaterheight. The destination of these latter lying to both sides of thecentre structure cannot always be determined with to Cameron, F marks vestibules or libraries; G, thedressing-rooms for the wrestlers, near which the remains of stair-cases to the upper stories have been found. He further mentionsperistylia with swimming-baths (H), rooms for practising (I),elaeothesia (K), with konisteria (Y) adjoining them ; also vesti-bules (L), above which rooms with mosaic pavements have been 406 THE CURIJE. discovered. M} JV, 0, P, respectively mark the laconicum,caldarium, tepidarium, and frigidarium ; R indicates larger rooms(exedrce) for conversation. Fig. 423 shows the interior of thechief hall (C) in its original condition, for the reconstru
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