The corpus record — Latin

flagrantia

flagrantia · f

a burning

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Where it lives

Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

flā^grantĭa — Lewis & Short

flā^grantĭa, ae, f.flagro,

I a burning, a glowing heat, ardor (mostly post-class.).

I Lit.: montis (Aetnae), Gell. 17, 10, 8: solis, App. M. 4, p. 157; 6, p. 178: aestatis, Arn. 2, p. 69: aestiva, the heat of summer, Mart. Cap. 8, p. 183: non flagrantiā oculorum, non libertate sermonis, sed etiam complexu; etc., * Cic. Cael. 20, 49.—

II Trop.: omnem pectoris flagrantiam sedare, vehement desire, Prud. stef. 10, 734: materna, maternal affection, Gell. 12, 1, 22.—Concr. as a term of reproach: etiam opprobras vim, flagiti flagrantia? thou burning shame! worst of scoundrels! Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 28; cf. flagitium, II. A.

In the wild

flagrantiae Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 12.1.22
flagrantiam Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.734
flagrantiae Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.31
flagrantiam Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.32

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