Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Balnearis

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

BALNEA'RIS, sc. fur. Catull. xxxiii. 1. A fellow who made a livelihood by stealing the clothes of poor people, who had no slaves of their own to take care of them, from the public baths while their owners were bathing; for at Rome every one was compelled by law to strip himself in the undressing-room, before he was permitted to enter the bathing apartments (Cic. Cael. 26.), the object of which was to prevent the property or utensils of the establishment from being purloined, and concealed under the dress.