Editorial note — Chapter VIII
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This excess of light in a bath, savours of indecency (See Suedon. Apoll. lib. ii. epist. 2). It was not the early practice of Rome, nor certainly of those from whom the Romans took the bath. “Our ancestors,” says Seneca, “did not believe a bath to be warm unless it was obscure.”
“Redde Lupi nobis tenebrosaque balnea Grilli.”—Mart. i. 60.