LUDUS AEMILIUS
a training school for gladiators, which was flanked at
least on one side by shops of workers in bronze (Hor. AP 32;
Porphyrio, Acron, et comm. Cruq. ad loc.). Its location is unknown,
but it may possibly have been built by the Triumvir Lepidus, or his
son. By the fourth century (Porphyrio, loc. cit.) it had been transformed
into a bath and was known as the balneum Polycleti. This name may
have been given to the whole establishment from some sign representing
the famous sculptor, that had been adopted by the bronze workers of
the ludus (Hor. loc. cit.), or it may have been that of the owner of the
baths (Jord. i. I. 413;
Hermes 1875, 416-424;
RE i. 593).