{"id":84213,"date":"2020-11-05T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T07:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=84213"},"modified":"2021-02-24T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:07:14","slug":"hadrian-on-visit-to-public-bath","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/hadrian-on-visit-to-public-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadrian on visit to public bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Romans appreciated the possibility of relaxing in the baths. Of course, the full pleasure of bathing could be experienced thanks to special additives such as oils or scrapers. A slave or bathman (<em>balneator<\/em>) hired for an appropriate fee could definitely make the stay more enjoyable. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But what if someone could not afford such a luxury? Back then, you could count on the help of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/hadrian\/\">Emperor Hadrian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aelius Spartanius mentions one &#8220;bathing&#8221; story. Once, Emperor <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/hadrian\/\">Hadrian<\/a>, while in a bathhouse, noticed an old veteran rubbing his back against a wall. When asked why the emperor did so, he replied that he could not afford a slave who would rub his old back with a scraper. The emperor immediately gave him money that he could use to pay for bathing. The next day it happened again, but not with one veteran, but with a whole lot of people rubbing against the walls. These men were counting on a similar grace of Hadrian, but instead of money he only advised them that since there are so many of them, let them serve one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40128,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[83],"class_list":["post-84213","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-ancient-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/84213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/84213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=84213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}