CAECILII, DOMUS
According to the legend S. Caecilia was exposed for three
days to the heat of the calidarium in the baths of the house of her
family, during the persecution of M. Aurelius. Excavations under
the church dedicated to her in Trastevere brought to light (in 1899-1900）
considerable remains of Roman brick walls of the first half of the
second century A.D., intermingled with still earlier (though not
republican) structures in opus quadratum. There are also later walls
(third and fourth century) with rough mosaic pavements. In one
room are circular basins, for the fulling of cloth or for tanning (see
CORARIA SEPTIMIANA and cf. Mau, Pompeii, 416). To the upper floor
of the aneient building belongs the room heated with a hypocaust, now
in the chapel on the right of the present church. The older basiliea
was perhaps to the left of this. See
BCr 1899, 261;
1900, 143,
265;
NS 1900, 12-14, 230; Cosmos Catholicus iv.
(1902), 648;
Leclereq in Cabrol,
Diet. ii. 2765; HJ 638-639; HCh 229; Kirsch,
Rom. Titelkirehen, 113-116; 149 n. I, 155, 156.
