dureta

Updated: May 15, 2025

When, upon account of his nerves, he was obliged to have recourse to sea-water, or the waters of Albula , he was contented with sitting over a wooden tub, which he called by a Spanish name Dureta, and plunging his hands and feet in the water by turns.

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus - The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete