Foot in length, and five Foot nine Inches in breadth. Every one of these Bathing Rooms has a Marble _Cistern_ wherein they bath; and in one of them above the rest, there is erected a stately Marble Throne. There are no Lights in the Walls either of the hot or cold Baths, tho’ the _Domes_ of them are wholly illuminated with Glass-Windows. The _Stoke-Hole_, which is two Foot and a half in compass, and of the same height, is built without the Baths. They keep a constant Fire in it, which heats a Brazen Vessel, whence it emits its warm Steams thro’ Pipes laid in a strait, and an oblique Manner, by that means heating the Bottom of the _Cisterns_ in which they bath. There is a Rivulet in a Field of the Suburbs, about six Foot in breadth, which runs near the _Stoke-Hole_. There are Pipes laid in this Brook, which convey the Water thro’ the Walls of these Baths into all Parts of them. One of these Pipes which passes thro’ a heated Earthen Vessel, upon turning a Cock, supplies the _Cisterns_ with hot Water; the other Pipe which rises higher, upon the turning of an other Cock, tempers the hot Water according to the Pleasure of the Person who baths in it. But I shall treat of the Use of Bathing, and the Way of building _Bagnio’s_ among the _Turks_ in another Place. I return now to the eleventh _Ward_, which _Procopius_ takes Notice of, when he tells us, that _Theodora_ the Consort of _Justinian_ address’d herself to him in the following Manner: _We have, may it please your Imperial Majesty, other Palaces still remaining, which are call’d the Palaces of_ Helena, _as we have also those of_ Placilla, _the Wife of_ Theodosius _the Great. For as_ Justinus _honour’d his Empress with several noble Palaces, which, after her own Name, were call’d the Palaces of_ Sophia, _so it is highly probable that_ Theodosius _did_ Placilla _the same Honour in building a Palace for her, which was call’d the Palace of_ Placilla. _I am induc’d to believe this, because he passionately lov’d her, and by Reason of that strong Resentment he bore to the People of_ Antioch, _whom he subjected to the Dominion of the_ Laodenses, _for demolishing the Statues of_ Placilla, _plac’d in his own_ Forum, _because he lay’d an additional Tribute upon them_. This Palace may not improperly be call’d also the Palace of _Flacilla_, of whom _Claudian_ speaks in the following Lines: _’Tis_ Spain _alone, subject to potent_ Rome, _Which pays her Tribute in her Emperours. Provision, Taxes, and Confederate Bands_ Rome _by her Arms in ev’ry Nation raises, Which bows its Head to her superiour Greatness_. Spain _only furnishes a Race of Princes, Wise, Bold, and Warlike, form’d for Empire, And fit to rule the Mistress of the World. Nor pleas’d alone to send her valiant Sons, Unless a second Offering she made, Of princely Mothers, noble Empresses_, Flacilla, Maria, _pious, humble, good; And fair_ Serena, _full of blooming Charms_.