half-roasting

Updated: May 3, 2025

I turned to histories, which I thought safe, and spent my days for the remainder of the winter sleeping early, long and late, eating abundant meals of good food, walking miles round and round the big courtyard under the empty arcades, exercising in the gymnasium of the Choragium, steaming and parboiling and half-roasting myself in its small but very well-appointed and well-served baths, and, otherwise, reading every bit of my daylight.

Edward Lucas White - Andivius Hedulio : Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire