any place where fire is kindled,
1.a funeral-pyre, Lat. bustum, Il., Hdt., etc.
2.a mound raised on the place of the pyre, Soph., Eur.
3.an altar for burnt sacrifice, Hdt., Eur.:—also the fire burning thereon, Hdt.
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