Fire │ Ignis
- The fire gloweth, burneth and consumeth to ashes.│ Ignis ārdet, ūrit, cremat.
- A spark of it struck out of a flint (or firestone), by means of a steel, │ Scintilla ejus ēlīsa ē silice, (pyrītē) ope chalybis,
- and taken by tynder in a tynder-box, │ et excepta ā fōmite in suscitābulō,
- lighteth a match, and after that a candle, or stick, │ accendit sulphurātum, et inde candēlam, vel lignum,
- and causeth a flame, or blaze, │ et excitat flammam, vel incendium,
- which catcheth hold of the houses [buildings]. │ quod corripit ædificia.
- Smoak [smoke] ascendeth therefrom, which, sticking to the chimney, turneth into soot. │ Fūmus ascendit inde, quī, adhærāns camīnō, abit in fūlīginem.
- Of a fire-brand, (or burning stick) is made a brand, (or quenched stick). │ Ex torre, (lignō ārdente,) fit titiō, (lignum extīnctum.)
- Of a hot coal (red hot / glowing [little] piece of a fire-brand) is made a coal, (or a dead cinder). │ Ex prūnā, (candente particulā torris,) fit carbō, (particula mortua.)
- That which remaineth, is at last ashes, and embers (or hot [burning] ashes). │Quod remanet, tandem est cinis, & favīlla (ārdēns cinis.)
Notes:
[i] Present active
participles
Fūmus … quī, adhærāns
camīnō … │ Smoke which, sticking to the chimney …
ārdēns cinis:
hot / burning ash
Ex torre, (lignō ārdente)
… │
Of (from / out of) a fire-brand, (or burning stick)
Ex prūnā, (candente particulā
torris) … │ Of (from / out of) a hot
coal (a glowing little piece of a fire-brand) …
[ii] ops, -is
[3/f] (here): help; strength; power
ope chalybis │ by means of [ = with the help of] a steel
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