lăvātĭo (noun F) : id.
* A washing, bathing, bath.
* In abstr.: quid ea messis attinet ad meam lavationem?Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 4; Cic. ap. Col. 12, 3, 2: lavatio calida et pueris et senibus apta est,Cels. 1, 3, § 71; 79; cf.: boves lavatione calidae aquae traduntur pinguescere,Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 178.
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* Bathing apparatus: ut lavatio parata sit,Cic. Fam. 9, 5, 3: argentea,Phaedr. 4, 5, 22; Dig. 34, 2, 25, § 10.
* A bathing-place, bathing-room, bath: in versura porticus frigida lavatio, quam Graeci λουτρὸν vocitant, Vitr. 5, 11; Dig. 19, 2, 30, § 1; Inscr. Grut. 444, 8; 473, 1 al.

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