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- This underfloor heating system was present in the tepidarium, the caldarium and the laconicum where the floors were supported on pillars of tiles or pilae.
- Marcus Agrippa had the original swampy ground made into a pool and baths in a setting of parkland and temples, the Laconicum Sudatorium or Baths of Agrippa.
- ""'Hymenonema laconicum " "'is a endemic of the central and south-eastern Peloponnesos, and flowers in May and June.
- It contains two species : " Hymenonema graecum ", that is known from the Cyclades, and " Hymenonema laconicum ", which occurs in the central and south-eastern Peloponnesos.
- Further to the western end of the building the ruins of the laconicum ( heated sweating room ) can be seen with the traces of the hypocaust ( underfloor heating ), along with the adjacent praefernium ( furnace ).
- Shortly afterwards ( Phase IIIA ) the baths in the north wing were rebuilt and changed to dry-heat ( " laconicum " ) baths, which meant that the villa had both damp-heat and dry-heat bathing suites.
- The largest " laconicum ", about in diameter, was that built by Cassius ( liii . 23 ), who states that, in addition to other works, he constructed the hot bath chamber which he called the " Laconicum Gymnasium ".
- The largest " laconicum ", about in diameter, was that built by Cassius ( liii . 23 ), who states that, in addition to other works, he constructed the hot bath chamber which he called the " Laconicum Gymnasium ".
- Sometimes, as in the old baths at Pompeii, the " laconicum " was provided in an apse at one end of the " caldarium ", but as a rule it was a separate room raised to a higher temperature and had no bath in it.
- All traces of this building are lost; but in the additions made to the " thermae " of Agrippa by Septimius Severus another " laconicum " was built farther south, portions of which still exist in the so-called " Arco di Ciambella ".