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IV PREFACE.
The discovery of the baths is perhaps
of greater consequence than may at first
appear, for, notwithstanding the enormous
ruins of the Roman Thermae, their compo-
nent parts seem to have been little under-
stood, and even variously named by the au-
thors who have undertaken their elucidation.
At Pompeii, on the contrary, the absence of
Xystus, Theatre, Palaestra, and an infinite
number of other intricate divisions which
render the Thermae of the great Capital so
complicated and unintelligible, leaves a sa-
tisfactory and defined idea of the use and
meaning of every other portion of the fabric.
Previously to the discovery of the baths,
the whole of a narrow alley behind the Chal-
«idicum had been cleared and a passage
opened to the street running between the
Forum and the Thermae. From that alley
a still smaller avenue ran between the Chal-
cidicum and the building which is known
The discovery of the baths is perhaps
of greater consequence than may at first
appear, for, notwithstanding the enormous
ruins of the Roman Thermae, their compo-
nent parts seem to have been little under-
stood, and even variously named by the au-
thors who have undertaken their elucidation.
At Pompeii, on the contrary, the absence of
Xystus, Theatre, Palaestra, and an infinite
number of other intricate divisions which
render the Thermae of the great Capital so
complicated and unintelligible, leaves a sa-
tisfactory and defined idea of the use and
meaning of every other portion of the fabric.
Previously to the discovery of the baths,
the whole of a narrow alley behind the Chal-
«idicum had been cleared and a passage
opened to the street running between the
Forum and the Thermae. From that alley
a still smaller avenue ran between the Chal-
cidicum and the building which is known