thermae

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The hot springs (thermae in Latin) were considered sacred, and exposure to the mineral waters was thought to be healing...

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Roman-style spring or baths with warm or hot water.

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noun

Roman-style spring or baths with warm or hot water.

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noun

Roman-style spring or baths with warm or hot water.

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The hot springs (thermae in Latin) were considered sacred, and exposure to the mineral waters was thought to be healing...

A bath or Thermae as they are known as which are still in existence today.

At this juncture I must heartily recommend the very silly and good natured anime/manga Thermae Romae [1][2].

The fact people today build inexpensive plastic Thermae as a novelty object, reflects how thoroughly we've solved all the *actually hard* problems of water infrastructure.

Netflix still produces some interesting shows and I especially like the anime that they are bringing on like Thermae Roma (sp?) that was recently released.

For instance, this paragraph interested me: > The Diocletian windows, also called the thermal windows, are the large semicircular windows that are characteristic of the enormous public baths (thermae) of Ancient Rome.

Let me quote a small passage from that, perhaps the very first paragraph of the article: > Diocletian windows, also called thermal windows, are large semicircular windows characteristic of the enormous public baths (thermae) of Ancient Rome.

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Every western kid I know studied that in Roman times bathing was a very important activity; as a matter of fact there were very advanced public baths, thermae (which included "sauna" with hot and cold water) in every city.