Gell, William: Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii ; the result of excavations since 1819 ; in two volumes (Band 1) (London, 1832)

POMPEIANA. 85

Wilkins, the exedra is at the entrance,
from which a vestibule, having an elaeotheca
on one side, and a heated stufa on the other,
leads to a frigidarium, to which succeed a
tepidarium and a caldarium. A repetition
of this plan for the women's baths forms the
whole of the edifice, and all seems perfectly
intelligible.

This is one of the few remains of thermae
in which names can be assigned to the apart-
ments with any degree of certainty. A
learned man, Andreas Baccius, has collected
an immense mass of all that the ancients
have said on the subject; and, as they ap-
pear to have described, according to circum-
stances and situations, such buildings as
each of them frequented, without reference
to any common example, so a more inex-
tricable confusion has perhaps never been
produced than the whole of his most eru-
dite dissertation. His facts have materially
assisted the present account of the baths of
Pompeii, and may be depended upon, though
his quotations are not always correct as to
the chapter and verse whence they were
professedly taken.