Cleaning

A public bath was built around three principal rooms:
·    a warm one called the tepidarium
·    a hot one called the caldarium, where slaves would rub their masters all over with perfumed oil and then scrape it of with a knife called a strigil
·    a big cold bath called the frigidarium to swim in.

A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used to scrape dirt and sweat from the body. First perfumed oil was applied to the skin, and then it would be scraped off, along with the dirt.