The laconicum (i.e. Spartan, sc. balneum, "bath") was the dry sweating room of the Roman thermae, sometimes contiguous to the caldarium or hot room. The...

Hymenonema laconicum is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the Asteraceae family. It is small to average height, with a rosette of greyish pinnately...

also featured steam baths: the sudatorium, a moist steam bath, and the laconicum, a dry hot room.[citation needed][dubious – discuss] By way of illustration...

piscina calida or solium -- sunk into the floor, a semicircular alcove -- laconicum -- where bathers would sit in order to induce sweating, and in the middle...

calidarium or caldarium, then the steam room (a moist sudatorium or a dry laconicum), where he would most likely scrape the by now grimy oil with the help...

(propnigeum, προπνίγειον), a vaulted sauna (sudatio), a dry sweating-room (laconicum), and a hot bath. To the north of the palaestra was a second courtyard...

rooms over the original atrium and the laconicum (room 53) of considerable architectural importance. The laconicum (dry heat room) or sudatorium (steam...

fed by hot spring water. Under Hadrian the bath was converted into a laconicum or sudatorium (dry heat bath) by supporting a new marble floor on brick...

frigidarium, and several warm rooms: (tepidaria, caldaria and laconica). The laconicum was heated through openings both in the walls and from under the floor...

Vitruvius (v. 2) refers to it as concamerata sudatio. It is similar to a laconicum, or dry heat bath, with the addition of water to produce steam. In order...