History of Sanitation

58 HISTORY OF SANITATION Q represents the principal entrances, of which there were eight. R is the natiatio or cold water baths to which the direct entrance from the portico is by a vestibule on either side marked S, and which is surrounded by a set of cham- bers that serve most probably as rooms for undressing and anointing. Those nearest to the peristyle were, perhaps, where the powder was kept which the wrestlers used in order to obtain a firmer grip upon their adversaries. The inferior quality of the ornaments which these apartments had, and the staircases in two of them, afford evidences that they were occupied by menials. T is considered to be the tepidarium with four warm baths taken out of its four angles, and two labra on its two flanks. There are steps for descending into the baths, in one of which traces of the conduit are still manifest. It would appear that the center part of this apartment served as a tepidarium, having a cold water lavatory in four of its corners. The center part, like that also of the preceding apartment, is supported by eight immense columns. The apartments beyond this, which are too much dilap- idated to be restored with any degree of certainty, con- tained, of course, the laconium and sudatories, for which the round chamber, W, and its appurtenances seem to be Restoration of Thermæ of Titus. (Restored by Leclerc)