Upon quitting the bath the Romans as well as the Greeks were anointed with oil. The Romans did not content themselves with a single bath of hot or cold water; but they went through a course of baths in succession, in which the agency of air as well as water was applied. It is difficult to ascertain the precise order in which the course was usually taken; but it appears to have been a general practice to close the pores, and brace the body after the excessive perspiration of the vapour bath, either by pouring cold water over the head, or by plunging at once into the _piscina_. To render the subjoined remarks more easily intelligible, the preceding woodcut is inserted, which is taken from a fresco painting upon the walls of the thermae of Titus at Rome. The chief parts of a Roman bath were as follow:--1. _Apodyterium._ Here the bathers were expected to take off their garments, which were then delivered to a class of slaves, called _capsarii_, whose duty it was to take charge of them. These men were notorious for dishonesty, and were leagued with all the thieves of the city, so that they connived at the robberies which they were placed to prevent. There was probably an _Elaeothesium_ or _Unctorium_, as appears from the preceding cut, in connection with the apodyterium, where the bathers might be anointed with oil.--2. _Frigidarium_ or _Cella Frigidaria_, where the cold bath was taken. The cold bath itself was called _Natatio_, _Natatorium_, _Piscina_, _Baptisterium_, or _Puteus_.--3. _Tepidarium_ would seem from the preceding cut to have been a bathing room, for a person is there apparently represented pouring water over a bather. But there is good reason for thinking that this was not the case. In most cases the tepidarium contained no water at all, but was a room merely heated with warm air of an agreeable temperature, in order to prepare the body for the great heat of the vapour and warm baths, and upon returning from the latter, to obviate the danger of a too sudden transition to the open air.--4. The _Caldarium_ or _Concamerata Sudatio_ contained at one extremity the vapour bath (_Laconicum_), and at the other the warm bath (_balneum_ or _calda lavatio_), while the centre space between the two ends was termed _sudatio_ or _sudatorium_. In larger establishments the vapour bath and warm bath were in two separate cells, as we see in the preceding cut: in such cases the former part _alone_ was called _concamerata sudatio_. The whole rested on a suspended pavement (_suspensura_), under which was a fire (_hypocaustum_), so that the flames might heat the whole apartment. (See cut.) The warm water bath (_balneum_ or _calda lavatio_), which is also called _piscina_ or _calida piscina_, _labrum_ and _solium_, appears to have been a capacious marble vase, sometimes standing upon the floor, like that in the preceding cut, and sometimes either partly elevated above the floor, as it was at Pompeii, or entirely sunk into it. After having gone, through the