Chammath. Ammaus. The warm baths of Tiberias.
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"R. Jonathan and R. Judah Nasi went to Chammath of Gadara."
"R. Immai and R. Judan Nasi" [he was grandson of R. Judah Nasi] "went to Chammath of Gadara."
Of the warm baths of Tiberias the Talmudists speak much. Let these few things be collected out of them:--
"R. Josua Ben Levi being sick, washed sometime in the warm baths of Tiberias, leaning on the shoulders of R. Chajia Bar Ba."
"Three warm baths remained from the waters of the deluge." I. The whirlpool of Gadara: that pool of Gadara, it may be, is that, which being drank of, as Strabo relates, cattle lose their hair, horns, and hoofs. II. The great fountain of Biram. Of Biram, see Bab. Rosh hashanah, fol. 23. 2. the first line. III. The warm baths of Tiberias.
"They allowed them the waters of Meara and the warm baths of Tiberias."
So also Josephus: "John (of Giscala) writ to me, praying 'that I would permit him the use of the warm baths which are at Tiberias.'"
And so Pliny before: "Tiberias, healthful for its warm waters."