Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Furnus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FURNUS (ἱπνός). An oven; for baking bread (Plaut. Cas. ii. 5. 1. Ov. Fast. vi. 313.), or anything else. (Plin. H. N. xx. 39. Id. xxviii. 29.) The excavations of Pompeii have revealed two bakers' shops, with their ovens, both constructed upon a similar plan, and in a considerable state of preservation; one of which is represented in the annexed woodcut (Furnus/1.1) as it now appears, with some of the mills for grinding flour in the shop before it. The small arch at the bottom contained the fuel; the one above, the oven itself, over which there is a flue to carry off the smoke.

2. A baker's shop. (Hor. Sat. i. 4. 37.) The preceding illustration shows a baker's shop, with some mills for grinding flour on the left hand, and the oven at the bottom.

3. A hot air or vapour bath, as contradistinguished from balneum, a warm water bath. (Hor. Ep. i. 11. 13.) See CALDARIUM, SUDATIO.

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