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84 POMPEIAJSTA.
clearly and certainly established than in the
case of the thermae or baths, occupying an
irregular quadrilateral space lying to the
north of the Forum. It is, nevertheless, not
so easy to assign to every apartment its ap-
propriate and classical name; for, though
many treatises have been written on the sub-
ject of the baths of the ancients, the models
referred to have been usually the stupendous
piles of Imperial Rome, where innumerable
chambers and porticos, adapted to various
uses not necessarily connected with ablu-
tion, have extended the thermas to a degree
which, admitting of no comparison, destroys
any analogy with a building dedicated to a
single purpose.
The Berlin edition of Vitruvius by Roder,
and the English translation by Wilkins, have
both exhibited the plan of certain Roman
remains at Baden Weiler in Germany, as
those nearest corresponding with the in-
formation we have received from Vitruvius
on the subject of the thermae of the an-
cients, yet even these do not seem to agree
precisely with the baths of Pompeii. At
the Roman baths of Baden, according to
clearly and certainly established than in the
case of the thermae or baths, occupying an
irregular quadrilateral space lying to the
north of the Forum. It is, nevertheless, not
so easy to assign to every apartment its ap-
propriate and classical name; for, though
many treatises have been written on the sub-
ject of the baths of the ancients, the models
referred to have been usually the stupendous
piles of Imperial Rome, where innumerable
chambers and porticos, adapted to various
uses not necessarily connected with ablu-
tion, have extended the thermas to a degree
which, admitting of no comparison, destroys
any analogy with a building dedicated to a
single purpose.
The Berlin edition of Vitruvius by Roder,
and the English translation by Wilkins, have
both exhibited the plan of certain Roman
remains at Baden Weiler in Germany, as
those nearest corresponding with the in-
formation we have received from Vitruvius
on the subject of the thermae of the an-
cients, yet even these do not seem to agree
precisely with the baths of Pompeii. At
the Roman baths of Baden, according to