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thermae
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baths
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ibant
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used to go
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oleum
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oil
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strigiles
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strigils, scarpers
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ferebant
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used to carry
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athletas
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athletes
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pugiles
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boxers
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in palaestra
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in the exercise room
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se exercenbant
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they were exercising
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discos emittebant
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they were throwing discuses
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invenerunt
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found
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apodyterium
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changing room
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togas
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togas
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tepidarium
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warm room
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paulisper
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for a short time
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caldarium
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hot room
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ibi
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there
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garriebant
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gossiped
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radebant
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scraped
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statuas
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statues
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posuerunt
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have put up
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porticus
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colomnade
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offerebant
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were offering
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in media
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in the middle of
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novum
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new
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longe
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far
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per auras evolavit
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flew through the air
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rediit
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went back
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non accepit
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did not accept
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tradidit
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handed over
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nasum fractum
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a broken nose
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mane
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in the morning
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domina
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madaam, ma'am
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donum
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present, gift
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hae togae
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these togas
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sordidae
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dirty
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intus
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inside
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alias
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other
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elegit
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chose
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haec
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this
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quanti est?
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how much is it?
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quinquaginta denarios
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fifty denarii
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cupio
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want
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tibi
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to you
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decem
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ten
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quadraginta
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forty
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quindecim
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fifteen
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nimium
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too much
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triginta
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thirty
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do
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give
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consentio
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agree
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ago...gratias...ago
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thanks, give thanks
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induit
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is putting on
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abi!
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Go away!
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pauper
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a poor man
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geris
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you are wearing
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parce!
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spare me!
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aegra
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sick, ill
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liberos
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children
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audiunt
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listen to
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ego
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I (nomnitive)
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mihi
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I (dative)
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me
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I (accusative)
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tu
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you (nomnitive)
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te
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you (accusative)
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When did Caecilius go to the baths?
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middle of the afternoon
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Who did Caecilius go to the baths with?
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with a group of friends
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Why were Pompeians always at the baths?
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The Majority did not have baths at home and they needed to keep clean
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What could one do at the public baths?
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exercise, meet friends, have a snack
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Who did Caeclius pay at the entrance?
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the ostiarius (doorkeeper)
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where in the baths did one go first?
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the Palaestra (exercise room)
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Describe the Palaestra
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open space surrounded by a colonnade. It was much like a large peristylium.
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Besides talking, what other things did one do in the palaestra?
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exercise by taking part in activities such as: throwing a ball from one to another, wrestling, an d fencing with wooden swords.
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Where did one go after the perystylium by following a passage?
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The Apodyterium
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Describe the apodyterium
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It was the changing room. Here, the people undressed and handed their clotehs to slave attendants who placed them in recesses arranged along the walls in rows.
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From the apodyterium, where did an arched doorway lead to?
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The tepidarium
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Describe the tepidarium
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A warm room where people spend a little time sitting on benches around a wall in a warm, steamy atmosphere, perspiring gently and preparing for highter temperatures in the next room.
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After the tepidarium, where did one go?
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To the Caldarium
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Describe the caldarium
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At one end, there was a large, rectangualr shaped bath that stretched across the full width of the room and was filled with hot water in which one sat or wallowed.
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How were the Roman's cleaned while in the caldarium
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After soaking in the bath, s slave is summoned to run olive oil from a little pot onto the body. The person lies on a marble slab while oil is worked into the skin and then dirt is removed with a scraper.
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