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igneus

igneus · adj

of fire

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Cathemerina 6 · 8.15/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Thyestes 4 · 6.35/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 4 · 5.27/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
de Natura Deorum 13 · 3.64/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 3 · 3.61/10k

Densest 12 of 54 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ignĕus — Lewis & Short

ignĕus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of fire, fiery, on fire, burning, burning-hot (cf.: fervidus, calidus).

I Lit.: sidera tota esse ignea, Cic. N. D. 2, 15, 40; cf. sol, Verg. G. 4, 426: arces (i. e. caelum), Hor. C. 3, 3, 10: ignea vis caeli, ether, Ov. M. 1, 26: ignea vis, fire, as one of the primary elements, acc. to Heraclitus, Cic. N. D. 3, 14, 35: Aetne, Ov. M. 15, 341: Chimaera, Hor. C. 2, 17, 13: aestas, id. ib. 1, 17, 2: ardor, of fire, Auct. Her. 4, 33, 44: celeritas, motus, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24.—

B Transf., of color, fiery, flaming, resplendent: gemmae igneo colore fulgentes, Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 137: purpura, Val. Fl. 1, 427: cingula gemmis, Stat. Th. 12, 527.—

II Trop., fiery, glowing, burning, fervid, ardent, vehement (poet.): furor, Ov. M. 9, 541: vigor, Verg. A. 6, 730: virtus, Luc. 9, 7: volat igneus aequore Tarchon, Verg. A. 11, 746; cf.: igneus in pugnas, in Martem et proelia et hostem, burning for the strife, etc., Sil. 6, 209.

In the wild

igneo Tertullian, De Carne Christi 8
ignea Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis 8.111
igneus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.25.p2
ignea Statius, Thebais 8.271
ignea Seneca, De Ira 2.15.2
igneus Vergil, Georgicon 1.453

6 of 186 attestations shown.

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