A dictionary of Greek and Roman . hich wereplaced in the forum, the different part which eachcuria had to take in the celebration of the persons who did not know to what curiathey belonged, performed the sacred rites on theQuirinalia, called from this circumstance the Stul-torum feriae, which fell on the last day of theFornaealia. (Ovid, Fasti, ii. 527 ; Varro, De Ling. N N 546 FORNAX. Lot. vi. 13, with Mullers note ; Festus, s. v. Quirinalia, Stultor. feriae.) The Fornacalia continued to be celebrated mthe time of Lactantius. (Lactant. i. 20.) FORNAX, dim. FORNACU
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . hich wereplaced in the forum, the different part which eachcuria had to take in the celebration of the persons who did not know to what curiathey belonged, performed the sacred rites on theQuirinalia, called from this circumstance the Stul-torum feriae, which fell on the last day of theFornaealia. (Ovid, Fasti, ii. 527 ; Varro, De Ling. N N 546 FORNAX. Lot. vi. 13, with Mullers note ; Festus, s. v. Quirinalia, Stultor. feriae.) The Fornacalia continued to be celebrated mthe time of Lactantius. (Lactant. i. 20.) FORNAX, dim. FORNACULA (jcap-ivos,dim. KafjLlviov), a kiln ; a furnace. The construc-tion of the kilns used for baking earthenware[Fictile] may be seen in the annexed woodcut,which represents part of a Roman pottery discoveredat Castor, in Northamptonshire. (Artiss Duro-brivae, Lond. 1828.) The dome-shaped roof hasbeen destroyed ; but the flat circular floor on whichthe earthenware was set to be baked is preservedentire. The middle of this floor is supported by a. thick column of brick-work, which is encircled bythe oven {furnus, K\i§auos). The entrance to theoven (prae/urnium) is seen in front. The lowerpart of a smelting-furnace, shaped like an invertedbell, and sunk into the earth, with an opening anda channel at the bottom for the discharge of themelted metal, has been discovered near Aries.(Florencourt, uber die Bergwerlce der Alien, p. 30.)In Spain these furnaces were raised to a greatheight, in order that the noxious fumes might becarried off. (Strabo, iii. 2. p. 391, ed. Sieb.) Theywere also provided with long flues {longinquae for-nacis cuniculo, Plin. N. ix. 62), and with cham-bers (camerae) for the purpose of collecting moreplentifully the oxides and other matters by subli-mation {Ibid, xxxiv. 22. 33—41). Homer de-scribes a blast-furnace with twenty crucibles{%oauol, II. xviii. 470). Melting-pots or crucibleshave been found at Castor (Artis, pi. 38), and atdifferent places in Egypt,
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