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    A place to undress before experiencing the bath



    After paying a nominal fee, or perhaps none at all, a visitor to the baths headed for the apodyterium to undress. From there the bather might follow a number of courses, but eventually he or she would experience the frigidarium (cold room), tepidarium (warm room), and the caldarium (hot room). (Some baths included a laconium, which provided intense, dry heat.) Part of the bather's routine involved applying oil to the body, exercising in the palaestra, and then scraping off the oil, dirt, and dead skin with a strigilis, a curved metal implement. The visit might end with a cold plunge in the natatio.



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     * Senex Caecilius, Mar 28, 2008 - 23:39

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