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ἰπν-ός , ὁ,
A.oven, furnace, Hdt.5.92.ή, Hp.Morb.2.47, Antiph.176.4, Diph.Siph. ap. Ath.2.54a, Archestr.Fr.46; esp. for heating water for the bath, Ar.V.139,Av.437 (ι^πν-).
II. the place of the oven, i.e. the kitchen, Semon.7.61, Ar.V.837, Lycurg.Fr.73.
III. lantern, Ar.Pax841, Pl.815, SIG1027.13 (Cos, 1v/iii B.C.), Ael.NA2.8.
IV. = κοπρών, dunghill, privy, Ar.Fr.353, Hsch. (Prob. cogn. with Engl. oven.）
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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