Thermae were Roman baths.
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Thermae were Roman baths.
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Seneca (epistol. lxxxvi.) compares the baths of Scipio Africanus, at his villa of Liternum, with the magnificence (which was continually increasing) of the public baths of Rome, long before the stately Thermae of Antoninus and Diocletian were erected.
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The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae).
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Closest matches include bath, bathhouse, bathhouses, bathroom, baths.
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