History of Sanitation

HISTORY OF SANITATION 57 preserved among those remaining, and which were per- haps more splendid than all the rest. Those apartments of which the use is ascertained with the appearances of probability, will be alone marked and explained. The dark parts represent the remains still visible; the open lines are restorations. A is a portico fronting the street made by Caracalla when he constructed his thermae. B are separate bathing- rooms, either for the use of the common people, or per- haps for any person who did not wish to bathe in public. C are apodyteria attached to them. D, D and E, E, the porticos. F, F, exedra in which there were seats for the philoso- phers to hold their conversations. G, passages open to the air. H, H, sladra. I, I, possi- bly schools or academies where public lectures were delivered. J, J and K, K, rooms appropri- ated to the ser- vants of the bath. Hypocaust for Heating Water, Thermæ of Caracalla From an old woodcut In the latter are staircases for ascending to the principal reservoir. L, space occupied by walks and shrubberies. M, the arena or stadium in which the youth performed their exercises, with seats for spectators. N, N, reservoirs with upper stories; O, aqueduct which supplied the baths. P, cistern. This external range of buildings occupies one mile in circuit. We now come to the arrangement of the interior, for which it is very difficult to assign satisfactory destinations.