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Balnea, vina, venus, corrumpunt corpora nostra, At faciunt vitam balnea, vina, venus! Wine, women, warmth, against our lives combine; But what is life without warmth, women, wine! I. Blood absorbs oxygene from the air, whence phosphoric acid changes its colour, gives out heat, and some phlogistic material, and acquires an ethereal spirit, which is dissipated in fibrous motion.
What he calls the Great Bath, with its semi-circular Hypocausta Laconica, &c., forms only one wing of a spacious regular building. From a survey of these, our ruins, we may, with some certainty, determine the nature of these Balnea pensilia.... The Eastern Vapour Baths are now demolishing in order to make way for more modern improvements.
"Balnea, vina, Venas corrumpunt corpora nostra." The Romans, originally, were not only frugal, but they dressed with great simplicity. In process of time, they became extravagantly fond of elaborately ornamented attire, particularly the women.
"Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra." If it were possible to allude to an evil more revolting than the sports of the amphitheatre and circus, or the extravagant luxuries of the table, I would say that the universal abandonment to money-making, for the enjoyment of the factitious pleasures it purchased, was even still more melancholy, since it struck deeper into the foundations which supported society.
Whenever the rubbish that covers the eastern wing of the Roman ruins comes to be removed similar Balnea pensilia will doubtless be found. "From each corner of the westernmost side of Lucas's Bath, a base of 68ft., there issues a wall of stone and mortar. These walls I have traced 6ft. or 8ft. westward under that causeway that leads from the Churchyard to the Abbey Green.
I puer, et strigiles Crispini ad balnea defer. Here, Boy, this Brush to Crispin's Bagnio bear. The common people contented themselves with sponges. The bathing time was from noon till the evening, when the Romans ate their principal meal. Notice was given by a bell, or some such instrument, when the baths were opened, as we learn from Juvenal, Redde Pilam, sonat Aes thermarum, ludere pergis?
Sutherland gives a precisely similar suggested plan as that to the north, but here again I have not copied him, believing he had not sufficient data. Dr. Sutherland thought that to the east of the discoveries which he described there would be found probably at some future day "similar Balnea pensilia."
The victim Pig to God Sylvanus slay, And for the public Bath a farthing pay. But after the hour of bathing was past, it sometimes cost a great deal more, according to Martial, Balnea post decimam, lasso centumque petuntur Quadrantes The bathing hour is past, the waiter tir'd; An hundred Farthings now will be requir'd.
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