dry-sweating

Updated: May 24, 2025

Of these we know how huge and splendid were the halls, with their coloured marbles, their mosaic floors, their colossal masterpieces of statuary, their elaborate arrangements of baths cold, tepid, hot and dry-sweating their conversation-rooms and reading-rooms. But we cannot pretend to say how far the Agrippan and Neronian baths of the year 64 corresponded in magnificence to these.

T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker - Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul