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|lshtext=<b>ac-cendo</b>: ndi, nsum, 3, v. a. cf. [[candeo]], [[prop]].<br /><b>I</b> to [[kindle]] [[any]] [[thing]] [[above]], so [[that]] it [[may]] [[burn]] downwards (on the contr., succendere, to [[kindle]] [[underneath]], so [[that]] it [[may]] [[burn]] upwards; and incendere, to [[set]] [[fire]] to on [[every]] [[side]]) ([[class]]., esp. in the trop. signif., [[very]] freq.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit., to [[set]] on [[fire]], to [[kindle]], [[light]]: ut [[Pergama]] accensa est, Liv. Andr. ap. Non. 512, 31 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 1): faces accensae, Cic. Pis. 5: [[lumen]] de suo lumine, to [[kindle]], Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 16, 51 (Trag. v. 388 ed. Vahl.); cf.: ita res accendent lumina rebus, Lucr. 1 fin.; and: Deus solem [[quasi]] [[lumen]] accendit, Cic. Univ. 9, 28; so, ignem, Verg. A. 5, 4 al.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> [[Meton]]., to [[light]] up, to [[illuminate]]: [[luna]] radiis solis accensa, Cic. Rep. 6, 17 (cf. id. N. D. 1, 31, 87); so of the [[lustre]] of [[gold]]: et gemmis galeam clypeumque accenderat [[auro]], Sil. 15, 681 ([[but]] in Cic. Arch. 6, 14, the [[correct]] [[read]]. is accederet, v. Halm a. h. l.).<br /><b>II</b> Fig., to [[inflame]] a [[person]] or [[thing]] (by [[any]] [[thing]]), to [[set]] on [[fire]], to [[kindle]], to [[incite]], [[rouse]] up; aliquem or aliquid [[aliqua]] re: placare hostem ferocem inimiciterque accensum, Att. ap. Non. 514, 22: quos meritā accendit [[Mezentius]] irā, Verg. A. 8, 50: [[nunc]] prece [[nunc]] dictis virtutem accendit amaris, id. ib. 10, 368 (7, 482, [[bello]] animos accendit, is [[more]] [[properly]] dat.). That to [[which]] one is [[excited]] is denoted by ad: ad dominationem accensi sunt, Sall. Jug. 31, 16; the [[person]] [[against]] whom one is [[excited]], by in or [[contra]]: in maritum accendebat, Tac. A. 1, 53: quae res [[Marium]] [[contra]] Metellum [[vehementer]] accenderat, Sall. J. 64, 4; [[with]] [[quare]] c. subj.: accendis [[quare]] cupiam [[magis]] [[illi]] [[proximus]] esse, Hor. S. 1, 9, 53. The historians [[use]] this [[word]] [[very]] [[often]], esp. [[with]] [[abstract]] substt.: [[certamen]], Liv. 35, 10: discordiam, id. 2, 29: spem, Tac. Ann. 12, 34 (cf. Verg. A. 5, 183): dolorem, id. ib. 15, 1 al. In Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 114, [[praeclare]] [[enim]] se res habeat, si haec accendi aut commoveri [[arte]] possint, accendi is [[obviously]] the [[first]] enkindling, [[rousing]], of [[talent]] (syn. [[with]] commoveri); cf. id. de Or. 2, 47; id. Phil. 3, 7. And so [[perhaps]] Sen. Ben. 7, 9: crystallina ... quorum accendit [[fragilitas]] [[pretium]], signifies vessels of [[crystal]], whose fragility gives [[them]] [[value]] (in the eyes of [[luxurious]] men).<br /><b>accendo</b>: ōnis, m. 2. [[accendo]],<br /><b>I</b> an inciter, [[instigator]]; [[read]] by Salmasius in Tert. de Pall. 6, [[where]] the old [[reading]] [[cerdo]] is to be preferred.

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