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installation	Baths of Zeuxippos
name	Baths of Zeuxippos – Out of use
event type	Out of use
start date	1550
end date	1915
date comments	Date of Gilles' work, up to the Baths' rediscovery.
persons	-
description	According to Gilles, nothing was left of the Bath anymore.
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1	Gilles 1561 Ball	72	(De Topographia Constantinopoleos 2.7) There is nothing of the Zeuxippum remaining at present, nor of many other fine baths; although we have many inscriptions relating to them, as, for example, that famous one celebrated by Agathius, in which Venus is said to have bathed herself; or another called Didymum, in which both sexes used to wash, described in verse by Paulus Silentarius, and a third made memorable by an inscription of the learned Leontius. Besides these, there was another named Cupido, described by the ingenious Marianus; yet all of them are either entirely ruined or so defaced by the Mohametans that you cannot discover who built them or to whom they belonged.