Aquae Sulis

Aquae __________ is the Roman name for the city now called _______ . It is in the south-______________ of England. It became an important town because of its hot spring. Water at a temperature of ______ºC comes out of the ground there. It emerges at a rate of about a ______________ litres a day. The water is rain which fell _________  years ago. It was used by the Romans to supply baths and for drinking.

The Romans liked to have public baths in towns, but those at _________ Sulis became particularly important because it was thought that the water would help to _______ people. Many people therefore visited the baths from other places, even from continental Europe. We know about many of them because of inscriptions left behind if they ________ or if they believed that they had been ___________ .

Before the Romans arrived in Britain, the spring was already regarded as special, and the C_________ who lived there believed it was connected with a goddess _________ . The Romans built a temple to Sulis, whom they regarded as the same as their goddess ___________, the goddess of wisdom and skill. Sick people would pray and make offerings to Sulis Minerva before entering the baths in hope of a cure. Because so many people went there for cures, the temple was a large one.

There were 1 / 2 / 3 main baths supplied with water from the spring. The one nearest to / furthest from the spring had the hottest water. It is called the _________ Bath. There were also ordinary hot baths (                       ), warm rooms (               ) and cold baths (                                ).