refulserunt

Updated: January 13, 2026

Says Seneca, Epistle lxxxvi., "Nisi parietes magnis et preciosis orbibus refulserunt." The baths were scenes of orgies consecrated to Bacchus, and the frescoes on the excavated baths of Pompeii still raise a blush on the face of every spectator who visits them.

John Lord - The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.