Thermae would be heated by a log fire before being channelled into the hot bathing rooms. The design of baths is discussed by Vitruvius in "De Architectura". "Thermae, balneae, balineae, balneum" and "balineum" may all be translated as "bath" or "baths", though Latin sources distinguish among these terms. "Balneum" or "balineum", derived from the Greek signifies, in its primary sense, a bath or bathing-vessel, such as most persons of any consequence among the Romans possessed in their own houses, and hence the chamber which contained the bath, which is also the proper translation of the word "balnearium". The diminutive "balneolum" is
Glossary of ancient Roman religion For public religious holidays, see Roman festivals. For temples see the List of Ancient Roman temples. Individual landmarks of religious topography in ancient Rome are not included in this list; see Roman temple. The verb "abominari" ("to avert an omen", from "ab-", "away, off," and "ominari", "to pronounce on an omen") was a term of augury for an action that rejects or averts an unfavourable omen indicated by a "signum", "sign". The noun is "abominatio", from which English "abomination" derives. At the taking of formally solicited auspices ("auspicia impetrativa"), the observer was required to acknowledge any potentially bad sign occurring