THERMAE COMMODIANAE
baths built by Cleander, a favourite of Commodus, in
Region I (Not.), probably south or south-east of those built
later by Caracalla (Hist. Aug. Commod. 17 ; Chron. 147; Hieron. a. Abr.
2199; Chron.
Pasch. i. 226;
Herodian. i. 12. 4).
1 Whether these thermae
were called
γυμνάσιον or not, depends on the reading accepted in Herod.
12. 4:
γυμνάσιον κατασκευάσας καὶ(A, 10, Mendelssohn's ed. 1883; om.
B, V, vulgo)
2λουτρὸν δημόσιον ἀνῆκεν αὐτοῖς. The thermae Commodianae
mentioned in Eins. 1. 4, 2. 4, 4. 8, 8. 6 are the
THERMAE AGRIPPAE
(q.v.); for ib. II. 2, cf. DAP 2. ix. 416). No trace of the real thermae
Commodianae has been found (HJ 217; Merlin 329, n. 6).
