The baths at Pompeii differed, of course, in plan and construction from the vast and complicated Thermae of Rome; and, indeed, it seems that in each city of the empire there was always some slight modification of arrangement in the general architecture of the public baths.
"The Last Days of Pompeii"
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
The poem concluded, those who took only the cold bath began to undress; they suspended their garments on hooks fastened in the wall, and receiving, according to their condition, either from their own slaves or those of the Thermae, loose robes in exchange, withdrew into that graceful circular building which yet exists, to shame the unlaving posterity of the south.
"The Last Days of Pompeii"
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
It chanced that Buonarroti was walking with the man whom Francis of Holland calls "his old friend and colour-grinder," Urbino, in the direction of the Thermae.
"The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti"
John Addington Symonds