Sources of Ancient Healing Thermalism

Pliny the younger, Letters, VI, 16.

Admiranda est Baianae amoenitas et circumiectuum: nulla enim Italiae pars tam iucundam praebet prospectum sinus ac maris

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Pliny the Elder indicates the importance of mineral and thermal springs were for humans, and how in some occassions, these springs caused the creation of some urbes because the value of these waters for health. In this case, he includes the examples of some of those cities: Puteolos (Puteoli, Italy), (Aquae) Statiellas (Acqui Terme, Italy) and (Aquae) Sextias (Aix-en-Provence, in France)

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Cicero ad Atticum 353.2

Cicero, after describing how he recieved Caesar at his villa in Puteoli, on the first day of Saturnalia, explains that the dictator was going to spend one day in Puteoli

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