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  • Quid gloriaris in gemmis ut facilius invites ad libidiniosum incendium?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Causa omnis et origo omnis prae sentis doloris tute es; isti enim tui oculi, per meos oculos ad intima delapsi praecordia, acerrimum meis medullis commovent incendium; ergo miserere tui causa pereuntis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Epist. et in deliciis, abi et oppugnationem relinque, quam flamma non extinguit; nam ab amore ipsa flamma sentit incendium: quae corporum penetratio, quae tyrannis haec?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In Tantric heat yoga, one arouses the energies by visualizing having sex with various deities.22 Reports of intense heat phenomena are also in the annals of Catholic sainthood, and Christian mystics speak of the incendium amoris, the “fire of love.”

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • In Tantric heat yoga, one arouses the energies by visualizing having sex with various deities.22 Reports of intense heat phenomena are also in the annals of Catholic sainthood, and Christian mystics speak of the incendium amoris, the “fire of love.”

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • In Tantric heat yoga, one arouses the energies by visualizing having sex with various deities.22 Reports of intense heat phenomena are also in the annals of Catholic sainthood, and Christian mystics speak of the incendium amoris, the “fire of love.”

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Porrò id admirari, est præter authoritatem tantorum virorum, quibus Ætnæ incendium optimè notum erat, quæ, cùm secundum Plinium hybernis temporibus niualis sit, noctibus tamen, eodem teste, semper ardet.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Porr� id admirari, est pr鎡er authoritatem tantorum virorum, quibus 苩n� incendium optim� notum erat, qu�, c鵰 secundum Plinium hybernis temporibus niualis sit, noctibus tamen, eodem teste, semper ardet.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Tum ille furibundus: 'Quoniam quidem circumventus, inquit, ab inimicis praeceps agor, incendium meum ruina restinguam.'

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Argyrippus exorari spero poterit, ut sinat sese alternas cum illo noctes hac frui. nam ni impetro, regem perdidi: ex amore tantum est homini incendium.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

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  • INCEʹNDIUM, the crime of setting any object on fire, by which the property of a man is endangered. It was thus a more general term than the modern Arson, which is limited to the act of willfully and maliciously burning the property of another.

    http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Incendium.html

    December 15, 2008