. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ase in thecorresponding apartment of the largerset. 2. Vitruvius (vi. 5. 1.) used thesame term to designate a private bathin a mans own house ; but this,according to Varro (I. c), is not astrictly accurate usage. See thefollowing word. BALINEUM or private bath, or the suite ofbathing rooms belonging
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ase in thecorresponding apartment of the largerset. 2. Vitruvius (vi. 5. 1.) used thesame term to designate a private bathin a mans own house ; but this,according to Varro (I. c), is not astrictly accurate usage. See thefollowing word. BALINEUM or private bath, or the suite ofbathing rooms belonging to a privatehouse (Varro, L. L. ix. 68. xiv. 20.); as contradistin-guished from the plural Balinece,applied to the public establishments,which commonly comprised two setsof baths, with distinct and separateaccommodation for both sexes, andconsequently more extensive andnumerous dependencies. In otherrespects the distribution and arrange-ments of the several apartments wereupon a similar principle in bothcases, as will be seen by comparingthe members in the annexed wood-cut, which presents the ground-planof the baths belonging to the sub-urban villa of Arrius Diomedes atPompeii, with those of the publicbaths described and illustrated in thepreceding article. The baths and. their appurtenances occupied anangle at one extremitv of the wholeL 2 76 BALINETJM. BALNEARIS. pile of building, and were enteredfrom the atrium through a door at on the right of theentrance is a small room (6), perhapsused as a waiting-room, or intendedfor the slaves attached to this de-partment of the household. Beyondthis is the apodyterium, or undressing-room (a), situated between the coldand hot baths, and having a separateentrance into both of them. b is a small triangular court, par-tially covered by a colonnade on twoof its sides ; in the centre of whichand in the open air, excepting that ithad a roof over head, supported upontwo columns at opposite angles, wasthe cold water bat
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