Quiz: For the questions, click here.
1. rex Cogidubnus aeger erat. multos medicos ad aulam arcessivit, remedium quaerens. rex Quintum Salviumque ad aulam invitavit. rex ad fontem sacrum ire volebat. rex Britannus deae Suli credebat et prope thermas stabat templum deae Sulis, aedificatum a fabris et ab architecto Cogidubni. rex saepe deam Sulem adoraverat. poteritne (will be able to) dea Sulis eum sanare?
2. In oppido Aquis Sulis erat haruspex notissimus, Lucius Marcius Memor. Memor, ebrius et ignavus et graviter dormiens, thermas administrare nolebat. Cephalus, suus libertus, eum excitare non potuit. Memor aegrotos flocci non faciebat. Memor maiores honores ascendere volebat. Cephalus erat anxius quod multi Memorem exspectabant: sacerdotes, architectus et fabri, aegroti et milites vulnerati.
3. Cephalus, a Memore dimissus,rursus cubiculum intravit quod aliquid novi Memori nuntiare volebat. nam senator Romanus, Gaius Salvius Liberalis thermis appropinquabat. Memor perterritus statim surrexit et celerrime togam induens, e cubiculo cucurrit.
4. Salvius et Memor in horto ambulabant. Salvius volebat Memorem rem magnam suscipere. Imperator Domitianus et Salvius mortem Cogidubni cupiebant. Imperator Memori praemium offerebat. difficile erat Memori Domitianum recusare!
5. Memor Cephalum ad se vocavit. Memor Cephalum mortem regis efficere iussit. Cephalus consilium optimum habebat........regi poculum venenatum offerre. Cephalus exiit, miser et anxius.
Sick and injured people would come to Aquae Sulis to worship the goddess Sulis and to pray for cures and healing. Many people visited the baths because they believed in the goddess' ability to heal. The very warm temperature (104 to 121 degrees F) must have helped people with arthritis and other medical conditions.
Minerva, dea Romana
Links:
Roman Baths Home Page: Excellent site with many pictures in an image gallery and a virtual tour of the Roman Baths. Check it out!
An article from British Heritage magazine: "BATH'S SACRED SPRING: AT THIS ANCIENT ROMAN BATH AND TEMPLE COMPLEX, CLEANLINESS REALLY WAS NEXT TO GODLINESS"
A closeup view of the columns and pavement surrounding the Great Bath
eheu! multi serpentes in capite monstri!
monstrum est _____(?).
