 ... grand circular vestibule, with four halls on each side, for cold, tepid, warm, and steam baths : in the centre was an immense square for exercise, when the weather was unfavourable to it in the open air ; beyond it a great hall, where 1600 marble...  A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII - Page 384by John Chetwode Eustace - 1817Full view - About this book
 | John Chetwode Eustace - Italy - 1813 - 720 pages
...open air ; beyond it, a great hall, where sixteen hundred marble seats were placed for the convenience of the bathers ; at each end of this hall, were libraries....an odeum for music, and in the middle a capacious bason for swimming. Round this edifice were walks shaded by rows of trees, particularly the plane;... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - Italy - 1818 - 524 pages
...TOUR Ch. XL beyond it a great hall, where sixteen hundred marble seats were placed for the convenience of the bathers ; at each end of this hall were libraries...swimming. Round this edifice were walks shaded by raws of trees, particularly the plane; and in its front extended a gymnasium for running, wrestling,... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - Italy - 1818 - 526 pages
...open air^ beyond it a great hall, where sixteen hundred marble seats were placed for the convenience of the bathers ; at each end of this hall were libraries . This building terminated on bath sides in a court surrounded with porticos, with an odeum for music, and in the middte a capacious... | |
 | John James (M.D.) - France - 1820 - 292 pages
...air; beyond it a great hall, " where sixteen hundred marble seats were placed for the " convenience of the bathers; at each end of this hall " were libraries....for " music, and in the middle a capacious basin for swim" Round this edifice were walks shaded by rows of • trees, particularly the plane ; and in its... | |
 | 1835 - 550 pages
...it in the open air ; beyond it a great hall, where 1600 marble seats were placed for the convenience of the bathers; at each end of this hall were libraries....porticos, with an odeum for music, and in the middle a spacious basin for swimming. Round this nh lire were walks shaded by rows of trees, particularly the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...it in the open air; beyond it a great hall, where 1GOO marble seats were placed for the convenience of the bathers ; at each end of this hall were libraries....porticos, with an odeum for music, and in the middle a spacious basin for swimming. Round this edifice were walks shaded by rows of trees, particularly the... | |
 | Alexander Adam, John Richardson Major - Rome - 1835 - 672 pages
...it in the open air ; beyond it a great hall, where 1600 marble seats were placed for the convenience of the bathers ; at each end of this hall were libraries....terminated on both sides in a court surrounded with porticoes, with an odeum for music, and in the middle a capacious basin for swimming. Round this edifice... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Classical antiquities - 1835 - 604 pages
...it in the open air ; beyond it a great hall, where 160O marble seats were placed for the convenience of the bathers; at each end of this hall were libraries....terminated on both sides in a court surrounded with porticoes, with an odeum for music, and in the middle a capacious basin for swimming. Round this edifice... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1836 - 392 pages
...it in the open air ; beyond it a great hall, where 1600 marble seats were placed for the convenience of the bathers ; at each end of this hall were libraries....porticos, with an Odeum, for music, and in the middle a spacious basin for swimming. Round this edifice were walks shaded by rows of trees, particularly the... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1836 - 358 pages
...in the open air ; beyond it a great hall, where 1600 marble -seals were placed for the convenience of the bathers ; at each end of this hall were libraries....in a court surrounded with porticos, with an Odeum, lor music, and in the middle a spacious basin for swimming. Round this edifice were walks shaded by... | |
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