Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), F, Furca, Furnus

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Furnus

（ἱπνός).

1.

An oven, usually a baker's oven (Plaut. Cas. ii. 5, 1). (See Pistor.)

2.

A baker's shop (Hor. Sat. i. 4, 37). (See Pistor.)

3.

A hot-air, or vapour-bath, as distinguished from balneum, which is a warm water bath. See Balneae.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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