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Since most Roman houses had no baths, their baths were public and had a communal character, acting as a place for socialising. It was a place people went to after the end of the working day (which finshed at noon). From the second century BC they were one of the main meeting points for people. They could be big monumental buildings which were complexes with many facilities. Friends met there, rich people met their clients, and group meals could be arranged. Politicians canvassed there. The Romans believed that good health came from eating, bathing, massage and physical and mental exercise: mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy/sound mind in a healthy body). Therefore their baths provided for all of these. Bigger baths could have shops, eating outlets and areas, washing areas, massage areas, a gym, a swimming pool, rooms for poetry readings and a library (the baths of Caracalla had two libraries, a Latin one and a Greek one). The average length of stay at the baths was two hours.
The main routine was to start with exercising and/or playing sports at the gym. This was followed a cold-plunge bath in the frigidarium, a hot bath in the caldarium and a sauna in the laconicum. Bathers then had their body anointed with olive oil, had massages and had their skin scraped with special metal scrapers (the strigil).
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