foculus
Ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν, ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθ' ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
fŏcŭlus: i, m. (in plur. also heterocl. focula, ōrum, n., Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 24)
dim. focus,
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.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
fŏcŭlus,¹³ ī, m. (focus), petit foyer : Cic. Domo 123 ; Liv. 2, 12, 13
