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  • 1 fax

        fax facis, f    [1 FAC-], a torch, firebrand, flambeau, link: faces de muro eminus iaciebant, Cs.: faces undique ex agris conlectae, L.: ambulare cum facibus, H.: faces iam accensas ad urbis incendium exstinxi: ardens: faces ferro inspicare, V.: dilapsa in cineres fax, H.: arcana, i. e. carried in the Eleusinian mysteries, Iu.— A nuptial-torch (carried in the wedding procession): novas incide faces, tibi ducitur uxor, V.: face nuptiali digna, i. e. of marriage, H.: nuptiales: maritae, O.— A funeral-torch (with which the pyre was kindled): Funereas rapuere faces, V.—As an attribute of Cupid, the torch of love, O., Tb., Pr.—As an attribute of the Furies, the torch of wrath: madefacta sanguine, O.—Of the heavenly bodies, a light, orb: Phoebi fax, C. poët.— A fiery meteor, fire-ball, shooling-star, comet: visae nocturno tempore faces: Stella facem ducens, i. e. a torch-like train, V.: stellae, a comet, L.: faces visae ardere sub astris, meteors, O.—Fig., a torch, light: facem praeferre pudendis, i. e. make deeds of shame conspicuous, Iu.: studii mei, guide, O.: adulescentulo ad libidinem facem praeferre.— A torch, fire, flame, incitement, stimulus, cause of ruin, destruction: corporis facibus inflammari ad cupiditates: me torret face mutuā Calais, flame of love, H.: dicendi faces, flaming eloquence: subicere faces invidiae alicuius: inde faces ardent (a dote), Iu.: Antonius incendiorum, instigator: belli, L.
    * * *
    torch, firebrand, fire; flame of love; torment

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  • 2 bothynus

    trench, pit; (as name of fiery meteor)

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  • 3 bolis

    bŏlis, ĭdis, f., = bolis (a missile, an arrow), a fiery meteor of the form of an arrow, Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96.

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  • 4 bothynus

    bŏthynus, i, m., = bothunos, a fiery meteor in the form of a pit: sunt bothynoe (acc. to the Gr. form = bothyni, like adelphoe, arctoe, etc.) cum velut coronā cingente introrsus ingens caeli recessus est similis effossae in orbem speluncae. Sen. Q. N. 1, 14, 1 (Haas. as Greek); App. de Mundo, pp. 58 and 64.

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  • 5 docis

    dŏcis, ĭdis, f., = dokis, a fiery meteor, App. de Mundo, p. 58, 23.

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  • 6 fax

    fax, făcis (also in the nom. sing. ‡ faces, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 87, 9 Müll.; gen. plur.: facum, acc. to Charis. p. 113 P., but without example), f. [root bhā, to shine; cf. favilla], a torch, firebrand, flambeau, link, orig. of pine or other resinous wood.
    I.
    Lit. (syn.: taeda, funale, cerĕus, candela, lucerna, laterna): alii faces atque aridam materiem de muro in aggerem eminus jaciebant, * Caes. B. G. 7, 24, 4; Liv. 22, 16, 7:

    ambulare cum facibus,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 52:

    malleolos et faces ad inflammandam urbem comparare,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32; cf.:

    ego faces jam accensas ad hujus urbis incendium exstinxi,

    id. Pis. 2, 5:

    servi in tecta nostra cum facibus immissi,

    id. Att. 14, 10, 1; cf.:

    faces incendere,

    id. Phil. 2, 36, 91:

    si te in Capitolium faces ferre vellet,

    id. Lael. 11, 37:

    ardentem facem praeferre,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 34, § 74:

    castris inicere,

    Tac. H. 4, 60;

    subdere urbi,

    Curt. 5, 7, 4:

    faces ferro inspicare,

    Verg. G. 1, 292; cf.:

    facis incidere,

    Plin. 18, 26, 63, § 233:

    dilapsam in cineres facem,

    Hor. C. 4, 13, 28.—At weddings, the torch carried before the bride on the way to her home, usually made of white-thorn (Spina alba) or pine, the nuptial torch: spina, nuptiarum facibus auspicatissima, Masur. ap. Plin. 16, 18, 30, § 75; Fest. s. v. patrimi, p. 245; s. v. rapi, p. 289 Müll.; Varr. ap. Non. 112, 27; id. ap. Serv. Verg. E. 8, 29; Plaut. Cas. 1, 30; Cat. 61, 98 sq.; Verg. E. 8, 29; Ov. M. 10, 6; Stat. Th. 2, 259 al.;

    hence, nuptiales,

    Cic. Clu. 6, 15; Liv. 30, 13, 12:

    maritae,

    Ov. H. 11, 101:

    legitimae,

    Luc. 2, 356.—Cf. Anthon's Dict. of Antiq. p. 434, and v. infra. Torches were also carried in funeral processions, Verg. A. 11, 142; Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 17; Ov. F. 2, 561; id. H. 21, 172; Sen. Tranq. 11; id. Vit. Beat. fin.; id. Ep. 222;

    and in the Eleusinian mysteries,

    Juv. 15, 140.—An attribute of Cupid, Tib. 2, 1, 82; Prop. 3, 16 (4, 15), 16; Ov. M. 1, 461; 10, 312 al.;

    of the Furies,

    Verg. A. 7, 337; Ov. M. 4, 482; 508; 6, 430; Quint. 9, 3, 47 al.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    On account of the use of torches at weddings ( poet.), a wedding, marriage:

    face nuptiali digna,

    Hor. C. 3, 11, 33; cf.:

    te face sollemni junget sibi,

    Ov. M. 7, 49.—And referring at the same time to the funeral torch:

    viximus insignes inter utramque facem,

    i. e. between marriage and death, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 46.—
    2.
    The light of the heavenly bodies ( poet.):

    dum roseā face sol inferret lumina caelo,

    Lucr. 5, 976; cf.:

    Phoebi fax, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18: canentes Rite crescentem face Noctilucam,

    Hor. C. 4, 6, 38:

    aeterna fax,

    i. e. the sun, Sen. Thyest. 835.—
    3.
    A fiery meteor, fire-ball, shooting-star, comet:

    noctivagaeque faces caeli flammaeque volantes,

    Lucr. 5, 1191; cf.:

    nocturnasque faces caeli, sublime volantes,

    id. 2, 206:

    emicant et faces non nisi cum decidunt visae, etc.,

    Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96:

    tum facibus visis caelestibus, tum stellis iis, quas Graeci cometas, nostri cincinnatas vocant,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 14; id. Cat. 3, 8, 18; Liv. 41, 21, 13; 29, 14, 3; Verg. A. 2, 694; Ov. M. 15, 787; Luc. 1, 528; Petr. 122; Sen. Oet. 232.—
    b.
    Of lightning:

    facem flammantem dirigere,

    Val. Fl. 1, 569; id. 4, 671. —
    4.
    Of the eyes:

    oculi, geminae, sidera nostra, faces,

    Prop. 2, 3, 14:

    has ego credo faces, haec virginis ora Dianae,

    Val. Fl. 5, 380; cf.:

    tranquillaeque faces oculis et plurima vultu materinest,

    Stat. Ach. 1, 164.—
    5.
    Prima fax (noctis), early torchlight, immediately after dark (post-class.); cf.:

    luminibus accensis, Auct. B. Afr. 89: tempus diei occiduum, mox suprema tempestas, hoc est diei novissimum tempus: deinde vespera: ab hoc tempore prima fax dicitur, deinde concubia, etc.,

    Macr. S, 1, 3 fin.; Gell. 3, 2, 11; 18, 1 fin.; App. M. 2, p. 119, 20.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    That which illuminates, makes conspicuous ( poet.):

    incipit parentum nobilitas facem praeferre pudendis,

    Juv. 8, 139; cf. Sall. J. 80.—
    B.
    That which inflames or incites, incitement, stimulus, cause of ruin, destruction (freq. and class.):

    cum corporis facibus inflammari soleamus ad omnes fere cupiditates eoque magis incendi, quod, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 44:

    me torret face mutua Calais,

    flame of love, Hor. C. 3, 9, 13; cf.:

    iraï fax,

    Lucr. 3, 303:

    dicendi faces,

    flames, fires of eloquence, Cic. de Or. 2, 51, 205; cf.:

    alicui quasi quasdam verborum faces admovere,

    id. ib. 3, 1, 4:

    alicui acriores ad studia dicendi faces subdere,

    Quint. 1, 2, 25 Spald.:

    hortator studii causaque faxque mei,

    guide, leader, Ov. Pont. 1, 7, 28; and: incitator et fax omnium, Prud. steph. 10, 67:

    subicere faces invidiae alicujus,

    Cic. Mil. 35, 98; cf.:

    flagrantibus jam militum animis velut faces addere,

    Tac. H. 1, 24:

    acerrimam bello facem praetulit,

    id. ib. 2, 86:

    (rogationes promulgavit) duas faces novantibus res ad plebem in optimates accendendam,

    Liv. 32, 38, 9:

    inde faces ardent, a dote,

    Juv. 6, 139: adolescentulo ad libidinem facem praeferre, i. e. to be a leader or guide, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 13:

    Antonius omnium Clodi incendiorum fax,

    instigator, id. Phil. 2, 19, 48; cf.:

    fax accusationis et origo,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 3:

    fax hujus belli (Hannibal),

    Liv. 21, 10, 11; Vell. 2, 25, 3:

    dolorum cum admoventur faces,

    Cic. Off. 2, 10, 37; cf. id. Tusc. 2, 25, 61:

    (dolor) ardentes faces intentat,

    id. ib. 5, 27, 76:

    quae (Agrippinae) Gaium et Domitium Neronem principes genuere totidem facis generis humani,

    destroyers, Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 45.— Absol.:

    cum his furiis et facibus, cum his exitiosis prodigiis (i e. Gabinio et Pisone),

    Cic. Har. Resp. 2, 4.

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  • 7 selas

    sĕlas, plur. sela, n., = selas, a kind of fiery meteor, Sen. Q. N. 1, 15, 1; App. Mund. p. 64, 20.

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  • 8 bolis

    kind of meteor (large, fiery)

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  • 9 cyparissias

    I
    species of tithymatus/spurge
    II
    kind of comet/meteor; kind of fiery meteors (pl.) (L+S)

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  • 10 trabs

    trabs, trăbis (ante-class. collat. form of the nom. trăbes, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75; id. Fat. 15, 35; id. Top. 16, 61, or Trag. v. 281 Vahl.; Cic. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 33 Müll., or Ann. v. 598 Vahl.), f. [trapêx].
    I.
    Lit., a beam, a timber:

    tigna trabesque,

    Lucr. 2, 192 sq.; v. tignum; Caes. B. G. 2, 29; 3, 13; 7, 23; id. B. C. 2, 9; Plin. 16, 38, 73, § 184; Gell. 1, 13, 17; Ov. M. 3, 78.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    A tree:

    silva frequens trabibus,

    Ov. M. 8, 329; cf. id. ib. 14, 360:

    securi Saucia trabs ingens,

    id. ib. 10, 373; cf. Varr. ap. Non. 178, 31; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 38:

    fraxineae,

    Verg. A. 6, 181:

    lucus trabibus obscurus acernis,

    id. ib. 9, 87: Val. Fl. 5, 640. —
    B.
    Any thing made of beams or timbers.
    1.
    Very freq., a ship or vessel: abiegna trabes, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75: trabes rostrata per altum, id. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 33:

    jam mare turbari trabibus... vide bis,

    Verg. A. 4, 566:

    ut trabe Cypria Myrtoum pavidus nauta secet mare,

    Hor. C. 1, 1, 13; Ov. P. 1, 3, 76:

    Thessalica,

    Sen. Agam. 120.—
    2.
    A roof:

    sub trabe citreā,

    Hor. C. 4, 1, 20; so in plur., id. ib. 2, 18, 3; 3, 2, 28. —
    3.
    A battering - ram, ballista, etc., Val. Fl. 6, 383.—
    4.
    A javelin, Stat. Th. 5, 566; 9, 124.—
    5.
    A club, cudgel, Stat. Th. 1, 621.—
    6.
    A table, Mart. 14, 91, 2.—
    7.
    A torch, Sen. Herc. Fur. 103. —
    8.
    In mal. part. = mentula, Cat. 28, 10.—
    C.
    A fiery phenomenon in the heavens, a meteor: emicant et trabes simili modo, quas dokous vocant, qualis cum Lacedaemonii classe victi imperium Graeciae amisere, Plin. 2, 26, 26, § 96:

    trabes et globi et faces et ardores,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, 1, 5; 1, 1, 15; 1, 15, 4; 7, 4, 3-5; 7, 5, 21; id. Ep. 94, 56.

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