laconicum

These are red, as is also the cornice and ceiling of the laconicum, which is worked in stucco with little figures of boys and animals.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Here it is necessary to refer to the words of Vitruvius as explanatory of the structure of the apartments (cap.xi. lib. v.): "Here should be placed the vaulted sweating-room, twice the length of its width, which should have at each extremity, on one end the _laconicum_, made as described above, on the other end the hot bath."

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

This apartment is exactly as described, twice the length of its width, exclusively of the laconicum at one end and the hot bath at the other.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

The room in its general arrangement resembles the hot bath of the men; it has a labrum in the laconicum, and a hot bath contiguous to the furnace.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

These two rooms, in neither of which was there a bathing vessel, show that frequently rooms thus named were not intended for bathing, but simply to preserve two intermediate gradations of temperature, between the burning heat of the caldarium or laconicum and the open air.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

It had on one side the laconicum, containing the vase called labrum.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

She listened for a short time to the voices and laughter which retreated in the direction of the laconicum.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

Egyptian byssus, and with hands dipped in perfumed olive oil began to rub his shapely body; and he waited with closed eyes till the heat of the laconicum and the heat of their hands passed through him and expelled weariness.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

_laconicum_ (sweat-room) serves as the porch to the present church.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890