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ignis
fire
Definitions
| Latin > English |
| ignis |
| 1. n. fire |
| 2. n. (metonymically) beacon, signal by fire |
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| Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas. And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions. Nunquam defuit columna nubis per diem, nec columna ignis per noctem, coram populo. There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people. Elementa sunt quattuor: ignis, aqua, aer et terra. The elements are four: fire, water, air and earth. |
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