Crossword-Solution: PISCINAE
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| piscinas | 1 answer |
| FISH ponds | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZEAEM
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eruption
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Ferreras, an industrious compiler, reviews his facts, and rectifies his chronology.] 127 (return) [ Goisvintha successively married two kings of the Visigoths: Athanigild, to whom she bore Brunechild, the mother of Ingundis; and Leovigild, whose two sons, Hermenegild and Recared, were the issue of a former marriage.] 128 (return) [ Iracundiae furore succensa, adprehensam per comam capitis puellam in terram conlidit, et diu calcibus verberatam, ac sanguins cruentatam, jussit exspoliari, et piscinae immergi.
Snails were fed in ponds for the purpose, while the villas of the rich had their piscinae filled with fresh or salt-water fish.
There are within it two piscinae and two aumbries at different levels, indicating, no doubt, an alteration of level in the altar itself during the period that this chantry was in use.
These _piscinae_ were covered in with a vaulted roof, and were sometimes on a very large scale, as in the example still preserved at Fermo, which consists of two stories, each having three oblong basins communicating with each other; or the Piscina Mirabilis at Baiae, which is covered in by a vaulted roof, supported on forty-eight pillars and perforated to permit the escape of foul air.
Next, when ample supplies of water were brought into the city, large _piscinae_, or cold swimming baths, were constructed, the earliest of which appear to have been the _piscina publica_ (312 B.C.), near the Circus Maximus, supplied by the Appian aqueduct, the _lavacrum_ of Agrippina, and a bath at the end of the Clivus Capitolinus.