07-18-2004, 10:59 PM
Caractacus,<br>
Not 'humble town houses' at all! If a private house had a bath suit it belonged to a rich citizen indeed!<br>
Otherwise, big public bath houses (and there was more than one in each Roman city deserving that name) would have been totally redundant and no nastily rich mecenas would have bothered to pay for them to have his statue erected at the forum!<br>
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Aitor <p></p><i></i>
Not 'humble town houses' at all! If a private house had a bath suit it belonged to a rich citizen indeed!<br>
Otherwise, big public bath houses (and there was more than one in each Roman city deserving that name) would have been totally redundant and no nastily rich mecenas would have bothered to pay for them to have his statue erected at the forum!<br>
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Aitor <p></p><i></i>
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