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foculus

foculus · m

a little hearth

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Where it lives

De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 3 · 1.98/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 1 · 0.56/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3 · 0.38/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

fŏcŭlus — Lewis & Short

fŏcŭlus, i, m. (in focula, ōrum, n., dim.focus,

plur. also heterocl. Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 24)

I a little hearth, a fire-pan, chafing-dish, brazier.

I Lit.: arrepto carbone exstincto e foculo imaginem in pariete delineavit, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 14; Cato, R. R. 10, 3; 11, 5: epulas foveri foculis ferventibus, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 67: dextram accenso ad sacrificium foculo inicit, Liv. 2, 12, 13; cf. Fronto Ep. ad Ver. 6 ed. Mai.—Comically: jam intus ventris fumant foculo, Calefieri jussi reliquias, Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 24.—*

II Transf., fire: bucca foculum excitat, Juv. 3, 262.

In the wild

foculo Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.7
foculo Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.2.12.13
foculos Cato, De agri cultura 10
foculos Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.7e.6
foculo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.10.p9
foculus Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 125

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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