AE´NUM
AE´NUM or
AHE´NUM (sc.
vas), a brazen vessel, used for boiling, is defined
by Paullus to be a vessel hanging over the fire, in which water was boiled
for drinking, whereas food was boiled in the
caccabus or saucepan [
CACCABUS]. (
Dig. 33, tit. 7, s. 18.3.) This
distinction is not,
[p. 1.36]however, always observed; for we
read of food being cooked in the
aënum.
(
Juv. 15.81;
Ov.
Met. 6.645) The word is also frequently used in the sense of a
dyer's copper; and, as purple was the most celebrated dye of antiquity, we
find the expressions
Sidonium aënum, Tyrium
aënum, &c. (
Ov. Fast.
3.822;
Mart. 14.133.) The coppers
which contained the water for supplying a bath were also called
aëna. (Vitruv.
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Aenum, or brazen vessel used for boiling.
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5.10, 1.) [
BALNEAE]
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