to set on fire

incendo, di, sum, 3 (archaic form of the perf. subj. incensit = incenderit, sicut incepsit = inceperit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 107 Müll.), v. a. [in-candeo; cf.: accendo and succendo], to set fire to, to kindle, burn (freq. and class.; syn. inflammare).

Lit.:

cupas taedā ac pice refertas incendunt,

Caes. B. C. 2, 11, 2:

tus et odores,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 37, § 77; cf.

odores,

id. Tusc. 3, 18, 43:

lychnos,

Verg. A. 1, 727:

oppida sua omnia, vicos, reliqua privata aedificia incendunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 5, 2:

aedificia vicosque,

id. ib. 6, 6, 1:

tabularium,

Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74:

Capitolium,

Sall. C. 47, 2:

naves omnes,

Cic. Att. 9, 6, 3:

tamquam ipse suas incenderit aedes,

Juv. 3, 222:

classem inflammari incendique jussit,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 35, § 91:

urbem,

id. Cat. 3, 4, 10; cf. Liv. 9, 9, 6:

quod primo incendendum Avaricum censuerat,

Caes. B. G. 7, 3, 2:

agros,

Verg. G. 1, 84:

vepres,

id. ib. 1, 271:

cum ipse circumsessus paene incenderere,

wast consumed, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 33, § 85.— Absol.:

nec incendit nisi ignis,

Quint. 6, 2, 28.—

Transf.

To light up with fire, to make a fire upon:

aras votis,

i. e. in pursuance of vows, Verg. A. 3, 279:

altaria,

id. ib. 8, 285.—

To heat, make hot:

diem,

Luc. 4, 68:

igne et tenuibus lignis fornacem incendemus,

will heat, warm, Col. 12, 19, 3.—

To make bright or shining, to brighten, illumine:

ejusdem (solis) incensa radiis luna,

Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 87; Ov. P. 2, 1, 41:

maculosus et auro Squamam incendebat fulgor,

Verg. A. 5, 88: vivis digitos incendere gemmis, to make brilliant, i. e. to adorn, Stat. S. 2, 1, 134.—

Trop.

To kindle, inflame, set on fire; to fire, rouse, incite, excite; to irritate, incense (esp. freq. in pass.):

ut mihi non solum tu incendere judicem, sed ipse ardere videaris,

Cic. de Or. 2, 45, 188:

iidem hominem perustum etiamnum gloria volunt incendere,

id. Fam. 13, 15, 2:

me ita vel cepit vel incendit, ut cuperem, etc.,

id. ib. 5, 12, 1:

aliquem morando,

Sall. J. 25, 10:

(aliquem) querelis,

Verg. A. 4, 360:

in minime gratum spectaculum animo incenduntur,

Liv. 1, 25, 2:

Tyndariden incendit amor,

Val. Fl. 6, 207:

plebem largiundo atque pollicitando,

Sall. C. 38, 1:

juventutem ad facinora,

id. ib. 13, 4:

bonorum animos,

Cic. Att. 2, 16, 1:

animum cupidum inopiā,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 126:

cupiditatem alicujus,

Cic. Fam. 15, 21, 1:

odia improborum in nos,

id. Att. 9, 1, 3:

tum pudor incendit vires et conscia virtus,

inflames, Verg. A. 5, 455:

illam incendentem luctus,

id. ib. 9, 500: clamore incendunt caelum, set on fire with, i. e. fill with, id. ib. 10, 895:

regiam repentino luctu,

Just. 38, 8 fin.:

rabie jecur incendente feruntur Praecipites,

Juv. 7, 648:

quibus incendi jam frigidus, aevo Laomedontiades possit,

id. 6, 325.—In pass.:

nimis sermone hujus irā incendor,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 66; id. As. 2, 4, 14; cf.:

incendor irā, esse ausam facere haec te injussu meo,

Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 47:

hisce ego illam dictis ita tibi incensam dabo, ut, etc.,

id. Phorm. 5, 7, 81:

amore sum incensus,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5, § 18:

(mulier) incensa odio pristino,

id. Clu. 64, 181:

incendor quotidie magis non desiderio solum sed etiam incredibili fama virtutum admirabilium,

id. Or. 10, 33:

incensus studio,

id. Rosc. Am. 17, 48:

iratus iste vehementer Sthenio et incensus hospitium renuntiat,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 36, § 89:

omnes incenduntur ad studia gloriā,

id. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. ib. 1, 19, 44:

imperator incensus ad rem publicam bene gerendam,

id. Prov. Cons. 14, 35:

Caesar ab eo (Crasso) in me esset incensus,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 9:

nulla mens est tam ad comprehendendam vim oratoris parata, quae possit incendi, nisi inflammatus ipse ad eam et ardens accesseris,

id. de Or. 2, 45, 190 fin.:

inimicitiis incensa contentio,

id. Opt. Gen. Or. 7, 22:

incensus calcaribus equus,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 48, 5.— Absol.: loquarne? incendam;

taceam? instigem,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 9:

dumque petit petitur pariterque incendit et ardet,

Ov. M. 3, 425.—

To enhance, raise: annonam ( the price of corn), to produce a dearness or scarcity (shortly before:

excandefaciebant),

Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 16 (cf. incendium, II. A.).—

To destroy, ruin, lay waste:

si istuc conare... tuum incendes genus,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 49:

campos,

Stat. Th. 1, 631. — Hence, incensus, a, um, P. a., inflamed, burning, hot:

profuit incensos aestus avertere ( = vehementissimos ardores febris),

Verg. G. 3, 469 Forbig. ad loc.— In comp.:

aether,

Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 201.

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accendo, ōnis, m. [2. accendo], an inciter, instigator; read by Salmasius in Tert. de Pall. 6, where the old reading cerdo is to be preferred.

ac-cendo, ndi, nsum, 3, v. a. [cf. candeo], prop. to kindle any thing above, so that it may burn downwards (on the contr., succendere, to kindle underneath, so that it may burn upwards; and incendere, to set fire to on every side) (class., esp. in the trop. signif., very freq.).

Lit., to set on fire, to kindle, light: ut Pergama accensa est, Liv. Andr. ap. Non. 512, 31 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 1):

faces accensae,

Cic. Pis. 5: lumen de suo lumine, to kindle, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 16, 51 (Trag. v. 388 ed. Vahl.); cf.:

ita res accendent lumina rebus,

Lucr. 1 fin.; and:

Deus solem quasi lumen accendit,

Cic. Univ. 9, 28; so,

ignem,

Verg. A. 5, 4 al.

Meton., to light up, to illuminate:

luna radiis solis accensa,

Cic. Rep. 6, 17 (cf. id. N. D. 1, 31, 87);

so of the lustre of gold: et gemmis galeam clypeumque accenderat auro,

Sil. 15, 681 (but in Cic. Arch. 6, 14, the correct read. is accederet, v. Halm a. h. l.).

Fig., to inflame a person or thing (by any thing), to set on fire, to kindle, to incite, rouse up; aliquem or aliquid aliqua re: placare hostem ferocem inimiciterque accensum, Att. ap. Non. 514, 22:

quos meritā accendit Mezentius irā,

Verg. A. 8, 50:

nunc prece nunc dictis virtutem accendit amaris,

id. ib. 10, 368 (7, 482, bello animos accendit, is more properly dat.). That to which one is excited is denoted by ad:

ad dominationem accensi sunt,

Sall. Jug. 31, 16; the person against whom one is excited, by in or contra:

in maritum accendebat,

Tac. A. 1, 53:

quae res Marium contra Metellum vehementer accenderat,

Sall. J. 64, 4; with quare c. subj.:

accendis quare cupiam magis illi proximus esse,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 53. The historians use this word very often, esp. with abstract substt.:

certamen,

Liv. 35, 10:

discordiam,

id. 2, 29:

spem,

Tac. Ann. 12, 34 (cf. Verg. A. 5, 183):

dolorem,

id. ib. 15, 1 al. In Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 114, praeclare enim se res habeat, si haec accendi aut commoveri arte possint, accendi is obviously the first enkindling, rousing, of talent (syn. with commoveri); cf. id. de Or. 2, 47; id. Phil. 3, 7. And so perhaps Sen. Ben. 7, 9: crystallina... quorum accendit fragilitas pretium, signifies vessels of crystal, whose fragility gives them value (in the eyes of luxurious men).

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exussum, burn down, burn, set on fire.

, exussum

burn down, burn, set on fire.

to set on fire, inflame, to torch, kindle.

agger, ĕris, m. [ad-gero].

Things brought to a place in order to form an elevation above a surface or plain, as rubbish, stone, earth, sand, brushwood, materials for a rampart, etc. (in the histt., esp. Cæs., freq.; sometimes in the poets): ab opere revocandi milites, qui paulo longius aggeris petendi causā processerant, Caes. B. G. 2, 20:

aggere paludem explere,

id. ib. 7, 58; cf. id. ib. 7, 86:

longius erat agger petendus,

id. B. C. 1, 42; 2, 15 al.:

superjecto aggere terreno,

Suet. Calig. 19; cf. id. ib. 37:

implere cavernas aggere,

Curt. 8, 10, 27:

fossas aggere complent,

Verg. A. 9, 567: avis e medio aggere exit, from the midst of the pile of wood, Ov. M. 12, 524.— But far oftener,

Esp.

The pile formed by masses of rubbish, stone, earth, brushwood, etc., collected together; acc. to its destination, a dam, dike, mole, pier; a hillock, mound, wall, bulwark, rampart, etc.; esp. freq. in the histt. of artificial elevations for military purposes: tertium militare sepimentum est fossa et terreus agger, a clay or mud wall, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 2: aggeribus niveis ( with snow-drifts) informis Terra, Verg. G. 3, 354:

atque ipsis proelia miscent Aggeribus murorum, pleon. for muris,

id. A. 10, 24; cf. id. ib. 10, 144:

ut cocto tolleret aggere opus, of the walls of Babylon,

Prop. 4, 10, 22.— A dike of earth for the protection of a harbor (Ital. molo), Vitr. 5, 12, 122; Ov. M. 14, 445; 15, 690.— A causeway through a swamp:

aggeres umido paludum et fallacibus campis imponere,

Tac. A. 1, 61.— A heap or pile of arms:

agger armorum,

Tac. H. 2, 70.— Poet., for mountains:

aggeres Alpini,

Verg. A. 6, 830; so,

Thessalici aggeres,

i. e. Pelion, Ossa, Olympus, Sen. Herc. Oet. 168.— A funeral pile of wood, Ov. M. 9, 234, and Sen. Herc. Fur. 1216.— A heap of ashes:

ab alto aggere,

Luc. 5, 524 Weber.— A high wave of the sea:

ab alto Aggere dejecit pelagi,

Luc. 5, 674:

consurgit ingens pontus in vastum aggerem,

Sen. Hippol. 1015 (cf.:

mons aquae,

Verg. A. 1, 105).—

In milit. lang.

A mound erected before the walls of a besieged city, for the purpose of sustaining the battering engines, and which was gradually advanced to the town; cf. Smith's Dict. Antiq., and Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 2, 12:

aggere, vineis, turribus oppidum oppugnare,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4; id. Att. 5, 20:

esset agger oppugnandae Italiae Graecia,

id. Phil. 10, 9:

celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis, aggere jacto turribusque constitutis, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 2, 12:

jacere,

to throw up, Sall. J. 37, 4; so Vulg. Isa. 29, 3:

aggerem exstruere,

Caes. B. G. 2, 30:

instruere,

id. ib. 8, 41:

promovere ad urbem,

to bring near to the city, Liv. 5, 7.— Hence, poet.: stellatis axibus agger Erigitur, geminasque aequantis moenia turres Accipit, a mound is built provided with wheels (for moving it forwards), Luc. 3, 455; imitated by Sil. 13, 109.—Since such aggeres consisted principally of wood, they could be easily set on fire, Caes. B. C. 2, 14: horae momento simul aggerem ac vineas incendium hausit, Liv 5, 7.— Trop.:

Graecia esset vel receptaculum pulso Antonio, vel agger oppugnandae Italiae,

rampart, mound, Cic. Phil. 10, 4: Agger Tarquini, the mound raised by Tarquinius Superbus for the defence of the eastern part of the city of Rome, in the neighborhood of the present Porta S. Lorenzo, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 67; cf. id. 36, 15, 24, n. 2, * Hor. S. 1, 8, 15; Juv. 5, 153; so id. 8, 43; Quint. 12, 10, 74.—Suet. uses agger for the Tarpeian rock: quoad praecipitaretur ex aggere, Calig. 27.—

The mound raised for the protection of a camp before the trench (fossa), and from earth dug from it, which was secured by a stockade (vallum), consisting of sharpened stakes (valli); cf.

Hab. Syn. 68, and Smith's Dict. Antiq.: in litore sedes, Castrorum in morem pinnis atque aggere cingit,

Verg. A. 7, 159; Plin. 15, 14, 14, § 47.—

The tribunal, in a camp, formed of turf, from which the general addressed his soldiers:

stetit aggere saltus Cespitis, intrepidus vultum meruitque timeri,

Luc. 5, 317:

vix eā turre senex, cum ductor ab aggere coepit,

Stat. Th. 7, 374; cf. Tac. A. 1, 18 Lips.—

A military or public road, commonly graded by embankments of earth (in the class. per. only in Verg. and Tac., and always in connection with viae, agger alone belonging only to later Lat.):

viae deprensus in aggere serpens,

Verg. A. 5, 273:

Aurelius agger, i. e. via Aurelia,

Rutil. Itiner. 39:

aggerem viae tres praetoriae cohortes obtinuere,

Tac. H. 2, 24 and 42; 3, 21 and 23.

ex-ūro, ussi, ustum, 3, v. a., to burn out, burn up, consume (class.; syn.: incendo, accendo, inflammo, cremo).

Lit.:

illic oculos exuram lampadibus ardentibus,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 86; 88:

fores,

id. Pers. 4, 4, 20:

domi suae vivus exustus est,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, § 70:

vicos complures,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 2, 5:

classem Argivum,

Verg. A. 1, 39.—

Transf., to dry up:

loca exusta solis ardoribus,

Sall. J. 19, 6:

paludem,

Verg. G. 3, 432:

lacus,

Phaedr. 1, 6, 7:

agrum,

Verg. G. 1, 107:

res exustae torrentibus auris,

Lucr. 5, 410:

caseum (sol),

Col. 7, 8, 5:

segetem,

Plin. 17, 9, 7, § 56:

aliquem (sitis),

Lucr. 3, 917; Curt. 4, 16, 7:

Pyrrhus Italiam bellis saevissimis exurens,

laying waste, devastating, Amm. 21, 1.—

Trop.

To set on fire, kindle, inflame:

(Venus) volt exurere divos,

Tib. 4, 2, 5; cf. Sen. Agam. 665 sq.—

To consume, destroy:

aliis scelus exuritur igni,

Verg. A. 6, 742:

exustus flos veteris ubertatis,

dried up, Cic. Brut. 4, 16.