Eh ?' Suppressing a smile, Glaucus replied: 'Imagine all Pompeii converted into baths, and you will then form a notion of the size of the imperial thermae of Rome.

But a notion of the size only.

Imagine every entertainment for mind and body--enumerate all the gymnastic games our fathers invented--repeat all the books Italy and Greece have produced--suppose places for all these games, admirers for all these works--add to this, baths of the vastest size, the most complicated construction--intersperse the whole with gardens, with theatres, with porticoes, with schools--suppose, in one word, a city of the gods, composed but of palaces and public edifices, and you may form some faint idea of the glories of the great baths of Rome.' 'By Hercules!' said Diomed, opening his eyes, 'why, it would take a man's whole life to bathe!' 'At Rome, it often does so,' replied Glaucus, gravely.

'There are many who live only at the baths.

They repair there the first hour in which the doors are opened, and remain till that in which the doors are closed.