Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Elaeothesium

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. 

ELAEOTHES'IUM (ἐλαιοθέσιον). The oiling room in a set of baths, where the oils and unguents were kept, and to which the bather retired to be rubbed and anointed. In large establishments a separate chamber was appropriated for this purpose, adjoining the frigidarium, or cold chamber (Vitruv. v. 11. 2.), as exhibited in the illustration at p. 142, from a painting representing a set of baths in the Thermae of Titus at Rome; where it is seen with the name written over it, filled with jars for unguents ranged upon shelves, and occupying the last chamber on the left hand, immediately adjoining the frigidarium, as directed by Vitruvius. But in private baths, or in public ones of a more limited extent, such as those of Pompeii, the tepid chamber seems to have been used as a substitute. See the article TEPIDARIUM.