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Title: The dawn of American history in Europe
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nida, William Lewis
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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a summers day, with banquets at thehomes of friends between. They could be seen clad inbathing costumes going back and forth from the homes offriends to the public baths. Magnificence and Comforts of Baths. — The baths wereof all kinds, some simple, and some with every possibleluxury. The walls were adorned with gorgeous mosaics,and water flowed from solid silver taps into basins of marble.Water was provided at all temperatures. There were roomsfor gymnasiums, restaurants, libraries, picture galleries;there were lounging rooms and shops for the sale of per-fumes. There were magnificent private baths also, buteven the emperors frequently used those open to the pubUc.Emperor Severus was often seen returning to his palace in HOW THE ROMANS LIVED ^ 45 bathing costume, bearing no mark of his rank save his purplecloak. Slaves rubbed the bodies of their masters and afterwardapplied oil and perfume to them. So large and so numerouswere the baths of Rome, that sixty thousand people could be
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Ruins of the Aqueducts, Rome. cared for daily. Ruins of these splendid baths have beenfound under every sky throughout the empire. City Water Systems. — To supply these numerous baths,water was brought to the city by great aqueducts, throughwhich rivers flowed from distant mountains into the citywater system. As the baths increased in number new 46 DAWN OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN EUROPE aqueducts were needed, until there were at Rome twenty inall, the longest being forty-five miles. Nothing that theRomans built, except their splendid roads, gives clearerproof of their greatness. The aqueducts were usuallybuilt beneath the surface; but when a valley was to becrossed, they were supported on huge stone arches, someof which were more than one hundred feet high. Thetunnels of some of these aqueducts through which the waterflowed were so large that a man might ride through themon horseback. So well were these aqueducts built, thatnow after many, many centuries, some of them are stillstanding,

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