 | John Chetwode Eustace - Church architecture - 1815 - 482 pages
...steam baths; in the centre was an immense square, for exercise when the weather was unfavourable to it in the open air ; beyond it a great hall, where sixteen hundred marble seats were placed for the conV&L. I. QC ' venieuce of the bathers ; at each end of this hall were libraries. This building terminated... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - Italy - 1818 - 526 pages
...baths; in the centre was an immense square , for exercise when the weather was unfavourable to 'it in the open air^ beyond it a great hall, where sixteen...hall were libraries . This building terminated on bath sides in a court surrounded with porticos, with an odeum for music, and in the middte a capacious... | |
 | Thomas Swinburne Carr - Rome - 1836 - 488 pages
...immense square for exercise when the weather was unfavourable; beyond it, a great hall, where 1600 marble seats were placed for the convenience of the...bathers; at each end of this hall were libraries." —" The whole was bounded by a vast portico opening into exeilrie (Vitruv. 5. 11. 2.), or spacious... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...square lor exercise, when the weather was unfavourable to it in the open air; beyond it a great hull, where sixteen hundred marble seats were placed for...convenience of the bathers ; at each end of this hall wore libraries. This building terminated on both sides in a court surrounded with porticoes, with an... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 370 pages
...square for exercise, when the weather was unfavourable for it in the open air ; beyond it is a marble hall, where sixteen hundred marble seats were placed for the convenience of the bathers ; and at each end of this hall were libraries. This building terminated oil both sides with a court,... | |
 | Marlborough coll, nat. hist. soc - 1880 - 152 pages
...steam baths; in the centre was an immense square for exercise when the weather was unfavourable for it in the open air; beyond it a great hall, where sixteen...this hall were libraries. This building terminated on each side in the court surrounded with porticoes, with an odeum for mnsic, and in the middle a spacious... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 642 pages
...the weather was unfavourable to it in thr open air; beyond it a great hall, where 1600 marble teat* were placed for the convenience of the bathers ; at...this hall were libraries. This building terminated OB both sides in a court surrounded with porticoes, with *a odeum for music, and iff the middle a spacious... | |
 | Thomas Morgan - Great Britain - 1886 - 446 pages
...exercise when the weather was unfavourable to it in the open air ; beyond it a great hall, where 1,600 marble seats were placed for the convenience of the bathers ; at each 1 Journal of the Brit. Arch. Assoc., viii, p. 240. BATHS OF THK ROMANS. 169 end of this hall were libraries.... | |
 | Alfred William Stephens Cross - Architecture - 1906 - 362 pages
...side for cold, tepid, warm, and steam baths ; in the centre was an immense square for exercise, and beyond it a great hall where sixteen hundred marble...bathers. " At each end of this hall were libraries. The building terminated on both sides in a court surrounded by porticoes with an odeum for music and,... | |
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Bacchus. In the principal building were , in the first place , a grand circular vestibule with four halls on each side , for cold , tepid , warm , and steam baths; in the centre was an immense square , for exercise when the weather was unfavourable... 