Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Baptisterium

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（βαπτιστήριον). A large basin

Baptisterium. (Pompeii.)

into which bathers could plunge or even swim about (Epist. ii. 17, 11). It is more commonly called natatorium or piscina. See Balneae.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)