caldarium

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[438] In Cicero's letter to his brother about the villa at Arcanum, he mentions the dressing-room (apodyterium) and the caldarium or hot-air chamber, and doubtless there were others.

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  1. The Roman name for a stove or heating apparatus.
  2. A room in the Roman thermæ, or public baths, in which water was heated to the highest temperature. See bath, 5.

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  1. Latin, also calidarium, < calidus, caldus, hot: see calid.
 

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