Adji&svmii efEfigitur A M W I TRIG, five £> tl M'0 : 
S' A. Normaoni tandem, complanato agrefti fofto, de 
SCROBE SEE R I E fecere S L OPESBER1E, 
de quo Latinizantium S A L G P 1 A, ut & S A L I S B E- 
R I E de S AR,I SBERI E. Ifec eqnidem eo liben- 
tius cpmmemoro, quo antique Patria? me$ memori- 
am redderem illuftriorem. Siquidem in hac Urbe duo- 
bus retro fiecuiis Majores mei Daumviratu, fummo ejus 
loci honor e,fuq§i font, pofteriq, eorum civitate gaudent 
perpetual quod de Romano antiqui VEROCONII 
Jure trafttim exiftimo, 
A facond Letter from Mr Baxter to Dr H&vwodd, concerning 
the Hypocaufta of the Ancients* # 
the one 
S 1 P H 
np He Ancients had two forts of Hypocaujla $ 
j§; called by Cicero ^Vaporarium ,and by others fLaconicum, 
oiSudatio. which was a large Sweating Bath. In which were 
Tria vafaria abend. cal led Cal d$rwtfap Tepidarium, ivAFrigida- 
riumy ram the, Water contained in them; T he other fori 
of .Hypocmfhm is not fo diftindiy handled by Antiquaries, 
and it was a fort of a Fornax, or Kill to heat their Win* 
ter Parlours,, or Coenztiunculs- Eybern#. Mrat Dfaiaf 
five C&natiunaila (.faith Argol upon Panviniuy ) fab qub ig*. 
nk accendebatur : , fjnde & Cmnatlo Hypocaufam* Coenatu 
ones JEflivd & Hybern£ , are mentioned by Cicero in Epi- 
folk* The Terrace Floor is called •: by Vitruvius, Tejhdo] 
Tejiudines Almorum in Communi Hypocauji caiefacteniur 
faith the fame Author, This, Elypocaujts was called Al- 
veus , and fornax : And the Man that tended the Fire 
Fornacator « The Tubuli feems to haye been contrived to 
convey away the fmother, that ©eherwifc would choke 
the Farnacator, This kind of. Stove feems to he graphh 
tally defcribed by p. Statius mBaheoHetrufc^ 
