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candēla, ae, f. [candeo; Fr. chandelle, Engl. candle; hence], a light made of wax or tallow, a wax-light, tallow-candle, taper.

Lit., Varr. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 727; Col. 2, 22, 3;

as a light of the poor, diff. from lucerna, used by the rich,

Mart. 14, 43.—

Hence, brevis,

Juv. 3, 287:

ancilla lucernae,

Mart. 14, 40;

of peeled rushes, used in funeral processions,

Plin. 16, 37, 70, § 178; Pers. 3, 103.—

Meton.

Fire:

candelam apponere valvis,

to set fire to the doors, Juv. 9, 98 (cf. id. 13, 146).—

A cord covered with wax (which preserved it from decay):

in alterā (arcā) duo fasces candelis involuti septenos habuere libros,

Liv. 40, 29, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.; cf. Hem. ap. Plin. 13, 13, 27, § 86;

used in cleansing and polishing,

Plin. 33, 7, 40, § 122; cf. Vitr. 7, 9, 3.

septēni, ae, a ( gen. plur. only septenūm, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 49, § 122; Col. 12, 28, 1), num. distrib. adj. [septem].

Seven each:

a summo septenis cyathis committe hos ludos,

Plaut. Pers. 5, 1, 19:

duo fasces, candelis involuti, septenos habuere libros,

Liv. 40, 29; Col. 1, 3, 10; Plin. 7, 25, 25, § 91 (dub.); 17, 10, 11, § 64.— Gen.:

amphorarum septenum,

Col. 12, 28, 1:

pueri annorum senum septenumque denum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 49, § 122.—

Transf., for septem, seven:

dispar septenis fistula cannis,

Ov. M. 2, 682:

fila lyrae,

id. F. 5, 105: quā septenas temperat unda vias ( the seven mouths of the Nile), Prop. 3 (4), 22, 16; cf.

in the foll.: homo crescit in longitudinem ad annos usque ter septenos,

Plin. 11, 37, 87, § 216:

bis septenos greges,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 1850.— Sing., sevenfold ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

gurgite septeno rapidus mare submovet amnis (Nilus),

Luc. 8, 445:

gurges Nili,

Claud. in Rufin. 1, 185: Ister ( the seven-mouthed Danube), Stat. S. 5, 2, 136 (cf. septemplex):

non removeri septeno circuitu,

Plin. 28, 16, 66, § 228.