I put a reference to fornication in there myself (which is ironic, since being married, the word doesn't apply to them). I actually noticed how close one of the words for furnace in the Aeneid sounded, and looked it up.
noun of action from past-participle stem of fornicari "to fornicate," from Latin fornix (genitive fornicis) "brothel" (Juvenal, Horace), originally "arch, vaulted chamber, a vaulted opening, a covered way," probably an extension, based on appearance, from a source akin to fornus "brick oven of arched or domed shape" (from PIE root *gwher- "to heat, warm").
It's just my opinion of the metaphor, TBC. I am not a real classicist, just a dirty-minded clown. Practically a Roman.
Volcanoes have magma chambers. The idea of a heated arch or vault furnace has been applied to our scientific understanding of the volcano. But there you are, the dirty-minded Romans also applied the term to other hot, sweaty places.
"Baby did a bad, bad thing." I see the Mount Etna connection as a ribald Roman joke about ejaculations of hot lava.
I didn't know about the joke, but it makes sense.
I put a reference to fornication in there myself (which is ironic, since being married, the word doesn't apply to them). I actually noticed how close one of the words for furnace in the Aeneid sounded, and looked it up.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/fornication
noun of action from past-participle stem of fornicari "to fornicate," from Latin fornix (genitive fornicis) "brothel" (Juvenal, Horace), originally "arch, vaulted chamber, a vaulted opening, a covered way," probably an extension, based on appearance, from a source akin to fornus "brick oven of arched or domed shape" (from PIE root *gwher- "to heat, warm").
It's just my opinion of the metaphor, TBC. I am not a real classicist, just a dirty-minded clown. Practically a Roman.
Volcanoes have magma chambers. The idea of a heated arch or vault furnace has been applied to our scientific understanding of the volcano. But there you are, the dirty-minded Romans also applied the term to other hot, sweaty places.