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laconicum
‖ laconicum (ləˈkɒnɪkəm) [L., neuter of Lacōnicus laconic, sc. balneum bath.] The sweating-room in the bath, so called from having been first used by the Spartans.1696 in Phillips (ed. 5). 1832 Gell Pompeiana I. v. 86 The hot air of the laconicum. 1857 Birch Anc. Pottery (1858) II. 226 The upper flo...
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Laconicum
The laconicum (i.e. Spartan, sc. balneum, bath) was the dry sweating room of the Roman thermae, sometimes contiguous to the caldarium or hot room. Dio, who states that, in addition to other works, he constructed the hot bath chamber which he called the Laconicum Gymnasium.
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Hymenonema laconicum
Hymenonema laconicum is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the Asteraceae family. Differences with related species
The genus Hymenonema contains two species, H. graecum, that is known from the Cyclades, and H. laconicum.
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laconic
laconic, a. and n. (ləˈkɒnɪk) Also 6 -ike, 7 -ique, 7–8 -ick. [ad. Gr. λακωνικ-ός (L. Lacōnic-us), f. λάκων Laconian. Cf. F. laconique.] A. adj. 1. (With capital initial.) Of or pertaining to Laconia or its inhabitants, made or written in Laconia; Lacedæmonian, Spartan. Now rare.1583 Exec. for Treas...
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Caldarium
In the caldarium, there would be a bath (alveus, piscina calida or solium) of hot water sunk into the floor and there was sometimes even a laconicum—a
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tepidarium
‖ tepidarium (tɛpɪˈdɛərɪəm) Pl. -ia. Also 6 in anglicized form tepidarie. [L., f. tepidus tepid: see -arium.] The warm room in an ancient Roman bath, situated between the frigidarium and the caldarium. Hence also applied to a similar room in a Turkish bath.1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. ...
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Frigidarium
exercising in a special room or court, he would enjoy the hot room, known as calidarium or caldarium, then the steam room (a moist sudatorium or a dry laconicum This led to various types of heated rooms including the caldarium, tepidarium, laconicum or sudatorium, and the frigidarium.
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Hymenonema graecum
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The genus Hymenonema contains two species, [[Hymenonema laconicum|H. laconicum]], which is known from the southern Peloponnesos H. laconicum differs in having yolk yellow ligulate florets with a purple spot at the base and dark purple anther tubes, which sit on 4¾-6 mm long and
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Hymenonema
It contains two species: Hymenonema graecum, that is known from the Cyclades, and Hymenonema laconicum, which occurs in the central and south-eastern Peloponnesos H. laconicum is limited to the central and south-eastern Peloponnesos, in particular the Mainalo, Parnon and Taygetos mountains and the surrounding lowlands
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Agnano
The laconicum was heated through openings both in the walls and from under the floor. As prescribed by Vitruvius, the bathing route involved the passage from the laconicum to the tepidarium so as to allow, after sweating, the use of the
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Thermae
Some also featured steam baths: the sudatorium, a moist steam bath, and the laconicum, a dry hot room much like a modern sauna. Laconicum
The Old Baths have no laconicum, which was a chamber still hotter than the , and used simply as a sweating-room, having no bath.
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Sudatorium
It is similar to a laconicum, or dry heat bath, with the addition of water to produce steam.
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Terme Taurine
Under Hadrian the bath was converted into a laconicum or sudatorium (dry heat bath) by supporting a new marble floor on brick columns for heating from
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Ebora Liberalitas Julia
Among other things preserved is the laconicum. For the walls of the laconicum two different building methods were used.
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Capo Colonna
A circular sweating room (laconicum) and a furnace (praefurnium) were built to heat the water for the hot bath (solium) in a large room on whose floor
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