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.