59. Seneca (Epistol. lxxxvi.) compares the baths of Scipio
Africanus, at his villa of Liternum, with the magnificence
(which was continually increasing) of the public baths of
Rome, long before the stately Thermae of Antoninus and
Diocletian were erected. The 'quadrans' paid for admission
was the quarter of the 'as', about one-eighth of an English
penny.