[257] E. g. the Epigram of Martial (VI. 81.) on Charidemus, who according to VI, 56. was a fellator.
[258] Martial, bk. VII. Epigr. 34. 35.,
Inguina succinctus nigra tibi servus aluta
Stat, quoties calidis tota foveris aquis.
(A slave girt about the loins with a pouch of black leather stands by you, as oft as you are washed all over with warm water). Claudian, I. 106.,
Pectebat dominae crines et saepe lavanti
Nudus in argento lympham portabat alumnae.
(He was wont to comb his mistress’hair, and oft when she bathed, naked, he would bring water for his lady in a silver ewer).
[259] Dio Cassius, Histor. bk. XLIX. ch. 43., τά τε βαλανεῖα προῖκα δι’ἔτους καὶ ἀνδράσι καὶ γυναιξὶ λούεσθαι παρέσχε. (And he opened the Baths gratuitously throughout the summer both to men and women). Comp. Pliny. Hist. nat. bk. XXVI. ch. 24. 9. Dio Cassios. LIV. 29.
[260] Plutarch, Cato Major ch. 39., συλλούσασθαι δὲ μηδέποτε· καὶ τούτου κοινὸν ἔθος ἔοικε Ῥωμαίων εἶναι. καὶ γὰρ πενθεροῖς γάμβροι ἐφυλάττοντο συλλούεσθαι, δυσωπούμενοι τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν καὶ γύμνωσιν· εἶτα μέντοι παρ’Ἑλλήνων, τὸ γυμνοῦσθαι μαθόντες αὐτοὶ πάλιν τοῦ καὶ μετὰ γυναικῶν τοῦτο πράσσειν ἀναπεπλήκασι τοὺς Ἑλλήνας. (And never bathed together; indeed the common habit of doing so appears to be of Roman origin. For at first sons-in-law used to guard against bathing with fathers-in-law, feeling shame at such exposure and stripping naked. Later on however having learned the habit of stripping naked from the Greeks, they again in their turn have taught the Greeks that of doing so along with women). The balnea virilia (men’s baths) are mentioned in Aulus Gellius, Noct. Att. X. 3., where he shows that they were also used by women.