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At Antioch the great, the capital of Syria, not far from Syngon, the principal street, splendid hot baths, _Thermae_, stood just at the meeting of four roads.
These baths were fashionable and expensive. Crowds of clients used to go there to learn the last gossip of the town. Between the _apodyterium_, the room for undressing, and the _frigidarium_, or room for cooling and rest, lay a fine hall with mosaic floor and marble walls; this was the hot-air bath, the _sudatorium_ or _laconicum_.