Pl.: latrinae

Roman public toilets with a row of seats next to one another and a water channel running alongside them. They were often located within a bathhouse or next to it, using the same drainage system and sometimes benefiting from the water flushed from the pools of the baths.

Latrines in the Forum Baths of Ostia (L) and the Hadrianic Baths at Leptis Magna, Libya (R). Note the preserved pierced seats and the water channel running at the feet of the users (photos Konogan Beaufay(L) and Sadi Maréchal (R)).