Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 351

[Chapter 18 Turii Hot Spring Bath]

Stacypus asked the shop owner, “How much does it cost to buy a set of these surgical instruments?”

“One set?!” The shopkeeper curled his lips: “You are a doctor from a foreign country and don’t understand that the doctors who perform surgery in Dionysus will use different tools because of the type of surgery they perform. Moreover, Dionysian The Asian School of Medicine also sends new designs of surgical tools from time to time, and now the surgical instruments in the store can be matched to at least five or six different types of surgeries.”

“Even if you can buy it—” The shopkeeper looked at the three of them and rolled his eyes again: “You can’t afford it either.”

“We can’t afford it?! Tell me, how much do these cost?” At this time, Nick Stratus also came over and said dissatisfiedly.

The shop owner glanced at him, pointed to the shop, and said, “The few things you just picked up are worth about 30 mins.”

“30 minna?! Just those few small things, it’s worth 30 minna?! You are robbery!” Lycasus shouted in surprise.

“If you don’t understand, don’t talk nonsense!” The shopkeeper was obviously spit, and his mouth was arguing: “Do you know how difficult it is to make those things? How high are the requirements? I tell you, make one It takes us enough time to make 30 copper shields for a knife like that, and it has to be made by the best foundry to make surgical tools that meet the requirements of that group of doctors. Good people say, ‘In Of course, the tools used to make knives on the human body must be very delicate, otherwise it will not save lives, but will kill people!’ So you say that the price is not high! And these tools are not made by any iron workshop. Only our Tios weapon workshop has this ability in Turiyi!”

The three of them were speechless.

“Also, what I just said was the old price, they’re 40 mina now.”

“why?”

“Because for a period of time in the future, our workshop will not produce these surgical instruments.”

“Why is that?”

“Because our workshop received a big task from the Dionysian road and traffic department, they want to build a stone bridge, and they need a huge iron grid to put into the river, emptying the river, so that it is convenient to use boulders and magma inside (actually ‘ Davos Cement’) to cast the piers, so our workshop is going to concentrate all the foundries and collect all the good iron ore to make these big guys…”

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While the three of Nickstratus were happily visiting the port market, Effieart and his wife rode north in a carriage to the hot spring swamp of the Delo River, a tributary of the Koseni River.

In that year, Davos became famous in this battle and annihilated the Lucanian tribal coalition, thus laying the cornerstone for the establishment of the Dionysian Alliance.

The big river beach, which was full of corpses at that time, has now erected a white memorial column 20 meters high and 2 meters in diameter, with the scene of the war carved on it, and a bronze statue of Davos holding a shield and a spear at the top.

This pillar of victory in the battle of the Great River Beach was originally called the “pillar of miracles” by the people, which means that the consul Dionia won more with less, created a miracle in the impossible, and won an amazing victory. .

Later, students from various city schools in the alliance were often brought here by teachers, so that they could feel the hardships at the beginning of Dionia’s establishment and the greatness of Davos, and were nicknamed “Pillars of Children” by citizens. The place where they are educated has its deep meaning. Since this war, the Dionysian Alliance has grown up healthily like a child who has fallen to the ground… Of course, this is a later story.

There is a large circular tomb not far from the memorial column. The tombstone is engraved with “The Tomb of the Warriors Who Died in the Battle of the Great River Beach”, and there is an inscription by Davos below: “The war is over, and the blood is fused. One.”

There are bronze statues of two men erected in front of the tomb. Looking at the costumes, you can tell that one is a Lucanian and the other is a Greek. They are smiling, their strong arms are clasped together, and the Greek man’s left hand is pointing to the east 20 Turiyi inside and out, making an inviting gesture, the meaning of which is self-evident.

There were no bones in the tomb. Back then, the Turians cremated the bones of thousands of Lucanian warriors. It is said that they burned for three days and three nights. Then they poured the ashes into the river. fish and shrimp.

Later, the Dionysian Alliance was established. For political purposes, under the strong suggestion of Davos, this tomb was established. Every year, people came here to pay their respects, mostly Lucanians.

Of course, this is not the main reason why this once desolate area is now lively, but the opposite bank of the Delo River pointed by the spear of the statue of Davos. replaced by a huge building.

Dozens of aqueducts built with ‘Davos cement’ introduced the hot spring water from the cracks in the rocks into the building, and finally a large water channel led the hot spring water flowing into the building back into the river. It is the famous Turiyi thermal baths in the whole of Greece.

Greeks do not like to take baths, but the Dionias have developed the hygienic habit of bathing under the long-term mission of doctors headed by Helps in the hospital in recent years, and they also know that bathing with hot spring water is more beneficial to the body.

So, on the day when the large bath was opened, almost all the men from Turii came to the hot spring swamp to try it out.

As a result, the baths were overcrowded.

Later, the large public bath also revised the rules for this, setting time periods and limiting the number of people entering the venue.

After soaking in the hot springs and enjoying various novel services, the Turii men reluctantly returned to the city and began to preach “how wonderful it is to take a bath in a large public bath.” An Elysee paradise built in the world!

And not long after, the public also learned that the bathing place actually allowed women to enter.

Since then, the people of Turii have continued to visit the large bath every day as an indispensable enjoyment in their life, and people from other Dionian cities have also come to enjoy it from time to time.

At the same time, the Turui people even take the “hot spring bath” as one of the three major entertainments for entertaining distinguished guests from afar (the other two are tasting Turui food and going to the arena to watch ball games), which has made the “Turiyi Hot Spring” The big baths’ reputation spread far and wide.

On some special days in Dionia, the large hot spring bath will also be free to the public, making the large bath, which is already cheap (only one Opol), more popular with the public.

For example, these days, because of the arrival of the marriage festival, the large public bath is free for all couples who come to take a bath.

This is also the reason why Effieart and his wife came here.

There are a lot of couples who came to the large public bath today, and everyone consciously formed a long queue and moved to the entrance of the bath little by little.

At this time, there was a commotion from the back of the team, and Ah Fa turned his head to see what happened.

“What happened?” the wife asked curiously.

“It’s nothing, it seems that the two elders of the Senate are also here.” Effieart said indifferently.

There are nearly 100 elders in the Senate. Except for the Turians who can recognize them all, the citizens of Dionia in other cities only know the chief elder Daves, the elders who have served as the chief executive of the city, and those who hold important positions in the legion. elder.

This is not surprising, whether in training or fighting, the citizens who served are naturally fond of those officers.

Finally crossed the wooden bridge over the Delo River and stood at the entrance. The administrator glanced at Affierte and his wife, and asked, “Are you husband and wife?”

The two nodded.

“Citizen of Dionia?”

Effieart nodded again and said, “We are still married couples attending this year’s marriage festival. Is there a private room for the small bath?” He extended his left hand, his wife extended his right, and wore an iron on her ring finger. Ring with Hera’s emblem “Peacock” engraved on it.

Because of Davos’ suggestion, the Temple of Hera in charge of Agnes not only hosted the celebration, but also awarded rings blessed by Goddess Hera to the newlyweds who participated in the celebration (of course, a small processing fee was charged) to Encourage and monitor their marital stability.

“Congratulations!” After the administrator confirmed, he turned to look at the wooden wall with many long nails, only one of which had a key hanging.

He took it down and put it in Effiart’s hand: “Hera bless you, there is the last one, the room number is written on the wooden sign, after entering the room, bolt the door, and you will not Someone will come to disturb you and return the key by noon.”

“Okay, thank you!” Effieart led his wife into the middle passage, and the left and right passages lead to the men’s and women’s baths.

As time went by, the long queue at the entrance had almost reached its tail.

When the bath manager saw the two people in front of him, he was stunned for a moment, and then he smiled again: “Lord Pollux, Lord Enanilus!”

“Is there a private room?” Pollux asked bluntly.

The administrator pointed to the wooden wall with only iron nails behind him, and said apologetically, “Because of the marriage festival, the room is full.”

Polyxis twitched the corner of his mouth in dissatisfaction, ignoring that the administrator was Davos’ employee, and said a little sarcastically: “Look at our consul, he really can take care of the people of Dionia!”

Enanilus did not answer, and asked the slaves behind him to take out four opals and pay for himself, Polyxis, and two slaves.

After they went in, the administrator excused himself to urinate, walked into the back room, and quickly found the director of the large bath: “Polyxis and Enanilus, let’s take a bath together!”

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After walking for a short distance along the passage on the left, a vast area appeared in front of you, with a large pool in the middle and several small pools beside it, all of which were steaming and misty.

Many men soaked in the pool and enjoyed the moisturizing of the hot spring water; some people were lying on the wooden benches beside the pool to be rubbed by their own slaves or massaged by slaves specially trained in the bathhouse; and a few people were leaning against the wall. On the wooden bench, chatting and talking with each other… They all have one thing in common – being naked.