incendĭum (noun N) : incendo
* A burning, fire, conflagration.
* Lit. (freq. and class.; equally common in sing. and plur.): incendium facere,to set fire to,Cic. Par. 4, 2, 31; Caes. B. G. 5, 19 fin.: excitare, restinguere,Cic. Mur. 25, 51 (v. under II.): in ipso urbis incendio,Caes. B. C. 1, 5, 3: frumentum flumine atque incendio corruperunt,id. B. G. 7, 55, 8: omnia incendiis vastare,Hirt. B. G. 8, 25, 1; cf.: nihil cogitant nisi caedes, nisi incendia, nisi rapinas,Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10: si incendium in arce fuerit,Quint. 7, 7, 4: si janua tenebitur incendio,id. 2, 13, 16: cunctos qui proelio superfuerant, incendium hausit,Tac. H. 4, 60 fin.: neglecta solent incendia sumere vires,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 85; cf. Verg. A. 5, 680: Aetna nocturnis mirus incendiis,Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 88: vivendum est illic, ubi nulla incendia,Juv. 3, 197: incendia praedandi causa facere,Paul. Sent. 5, 20, 1: fortuita incendia,id. ib. 5, 20, 3.
* Transf.
* Trop., fire, flame, heat, glow, vehemence (class.; a favorite trope of Cic.).
* Concr., a firebrand, torch (poet.), Verg. A. 9, 71; Ov. M. 14, 539.
* In gen.: si quod esset in suas fortunas incendium excitatum, id se non aquā sed ruinā restincturum,Cic. Mur. 25, 51 fin.; cf. id. Rep. 1, 1: miseriarum,id. Tusc. 4, 32, 69: invidiae incendio conflagrare,id. Cat. 1, 11, 29: incendio alieni judicii conflagrare,Liv. 39, 6, 4: res cogit, huic tanto incendio succurrere omnes, qui, etc., Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 5: populare,Liv. 22, 40, 3: annonae,a raising of the price of corn,Manil. 4, 168; Ps.-Quint. Decl. 12, 4.
* Esp., the fire of passion: ita mihi in pectore atque in corde facit amor incendium, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 3: cupiditatum incendiis inflammatus,Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 70: restinctis jam animorum incendiis,id. Or. 8, 27: oratione concitare,id. de Or. 2, 47, 197: abstruso pectus ejus flagravit incendio (i. e. dolore),Vell. 2, 130, 4: militaris tumultus,id. 2, 125, 4: aliae Satyris incendia mitia praebent,enkindle, inflame,Ov. F. 1, 411: movere,id. A. A. 2, 301.

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