Fax, facis, f. ge. Varro. A torche, candle, firebrand, or other thing which barning giueth light. A chiefe authour or moouer: one that incen seth or stirreth.Faces quibus incensa domus deflagrauit.Cic.Faces nuptiarum. Plin. Per translationem in varias significationes traducitur. vt, Fax accusationis. Plin. iun.The chiefe author and furtherer of an accusation. Cruentæ faces bellonæ. Stat.Fax corporis.Cic.The affection, lust, or appetite of the body.Dicendi faces.Cic.Vehemencie of eloquence with figures & amplifications and other ornaments.Incendiorum Antonij fax Clodius.Cic.Clodius was a firebrande to Antonies furie, or a chiefe incitour or stirrer.Inuidiæ faces.Cic. Mortis fax. Ouid.Seditionis faces.Cic.Firebrandes of sedition: thinges that maintaine and giue occasion af sedition. Acriores faces. Quint. Vide ACER. Atra fax.Virg. Auidæ faces. Ouid.Exigua fax.Stat.Flammifera.Ouid.A burning torch or sirebrande.Flebilis. Sen. A sorrowful and vnluckie marriage.Fulgens. Tibul. Iugales faces. Val. Flac.Mariage.Legitimæ faces.Senec.Lawful marriage.Luciferas faces crinita nox. Valer. Flac. A night wherein appeareth many blasing starres.Lucifera fax.Senec.Maritæ faces. Idem quod Nuptiales. Ouid.Noctiuagæ faces cœli. Lucr. Starres thining by night.Nuptiales faces.Cic.Torches borne before the bride in marriage.Phœbea fax.Liu.The light or shining of the sunne.Rosea fax solis. Lucret. Sepulchralis fax.Ouid.A torch at a buriall.Tranquillæ faces oculis.Stat. Addere faces alicui. Tac. To incÊse or enconrage forwarde.Dolorum faces admouere.Cic. Vide ADMOVBO. Ambulare cum facibus. Hor. To walke with torches.Trisulca face ardescit mundus. Sen. It lightneth.Armata facibus.Virg. Sæuæ collucent faces. Virg.Cremare faces.Ouid.To burne torches.Igneis exarsit facibus sitis. Len. Excitat incendium fax.Cic.That firebrande raiseth a greate fire.Extinguere faces. Sen. Faces ferre in Capitolium.Cic.To set the capitoll on fire.Ferre faces in tecta.Ouid.To set houses on fire.Mutua flagrare face. Sen. Incensas faces iaculari. Senec.Serui cum facibus in tecta nostra immissi.Cicer.Seruanus were sent to set our houses on fire.Inferre faces tectis, Vide INFERO.Inspicare faces acuto ferro, Vide INSPICO.Infestam facem pandit cometa. Sene. Præferre facem adolescentulo ad libidinem.Cicer.To be an example or stirrer of a yong man to leacherie, and silthie pleasure, as it were to light him the way.Rapidæ sonuere faces.Val. Flac.Subdere faces ad studia dicendi.Quintil.To incourage and inflame to the studie of eloquence.Pudoris facibus succensa mens. Claud. The minde inflamed or stirred with the motion or spurre of chastitie.Accensas ventilare faces.Ouid. Visæ sunt nocturno tempore faces.Cic.Cœlestes faces visæ.Cic.Fire drakes, or slames of fire were seene in the element.
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fax, făcis (also in the nom. sing. faces, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 87, 9 Müll.; gen. plur.: facum, acc. to Charis. p. 113 P., but without example), f. [root bhā, to shine; cf. favilla], a torch, firebrand, flambeau, link, orig. of pine or other resinous wood. I.Lit. (syn.: taeda, funale, cerĕus, candela, lucerna, laterna): alii faces atque aridam materiem de muro in aggerem eminus jaciebant, Caes. B. G. 7, 24, 4; Liv. 22, 16, 7: ambulare cum facibus, Hor. S. 1, 4, 52: malleolos et faces ad inflammandam urbem comparare, Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32; cf.: ego faces jam accensas ad hujus urbis incendium exstinxi, id. Pis. 2, 5: servi in tecta nostra cum facibus immissi, id. Att. 14, 10, 1; cf.: faces incendere, id. Phil. 2, 36, 91: si te in Capitolium faces ferre vellet, id. Lael. 11, 37: ardentem facem praeferre, id. Verr. 2, 4, 34, 74: castris inicere, Tac. H. 4, 60; subdere urbi, Curt. 5, 7, 4: faces ferro inspicare, Verg. G. 1, 292; cf.: facis incidere, Plin. 18, 26, 63, 233: dilapsam in cineres facem, Hor. C. 4, 13, 28.—At weddings, the torch carried before the bride on the way to her home, usually made of white-thorn (Spina alba) or pine, the nuptial torch: spina, nuptiarum facibus auspicatissima, Masur. ap. Plin. 16, 18, 30, 75; Fest. s. v. patrimi, p. 245; s. v. rapi, p. 289 Müll.; Varr. ap. Non. 112, 27; id. ap. Serv. Verg. E. 8, 29; Plaut. Cas. 1, 30; Cat. 61, 98 sq.; Verg. E. 8, 29; Ov. M. 10, 6; Stat. Th. 2, 259 al.; hence, nuptiales, Cic. Clu. 6, 15; Liv. 30, 13, 12: maritae, Ov. H. 11, 101: legitimae, Luc. 2, 356.—Cf. Anthon's Dict. of Antiq. p. 434, and v. infra. Torches were also carried in funeral processions, Verg. A. 11, 142; Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 17; Ov. F. 2, 561; id. H. 21, 172; Sen. Tranq. 11; id. Vit. Beat. fin.; id. Ep. 222; and in the Eleusinian mysteries, Juv. 15, 140.—An attribute of Cupid, Tib. 2, 1, 82; Prop. 3, 16 (4, 15), 16; Ov. M. 1, 461; 10, 312 al.; of the Furies, Verg. A. 7, 337; Ov. M. 4, 482; 508; 6, 430; Quint. 9, 3, 47 al.—B.Transf.1. On account of the use of torches at weddings (poet.), a wedding, marriage: face nuptiali digna, Hor. C. 3, 11, 33; cf.: te face sollemni junget sibi, Ov. M. 7, 49.—And referring at the same time to the funeral torch: viximus insignes inter utramque facem, i. e.
between marriage and death
, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 46.—2.The light of the heavenly bodies (poet.): dum roseā face sol inferret lumina caelo, Lucr. 5, 976; cf.: Phoebi fax, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18: canentes Rite crescentem face Noctilucam, Hor. C. 4, 6, 38: aeterna fax, i. e.
the sun
, Sen. Thyest. 835.—3.A fiery meteor, fire-ball, shooting-star, comet: noctivagaeque faces caeli flammaeque volantes, Lucr. 5, 1191; cf.: nocturnasque faces caeli, sublime volantes, id. 2, 206: emicant et faces non nisi cum decidunt visae, etc., Plin. 2, 26, 25, 96: tum facibus visis caelestibus, tum stellis iis, quas Graeci cometas, nostri cincinnatas vocant, Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 14; id. Cat. 3, 8, 18; Liv. 41, 21, 13; 29, 14, 3; Verg. A. 2, 694; Ov. M. 15, 787; Luc. 1, 528; Petr. 122; Sen. Oet. 232.—b. Of lightning: facem flammantem dirigere, Val. Fl. 1, 569; id. 4, 671. —4. Of the eyes: oculi, geminae, sidera nostra, faces, Prop. 2, 3, 14: has ego credo faces, haec virginis ora Dianae, Val. Fl. 5, 380; cf.: tranquillaeque faces oculis et plurima vultu materinest, Stat. Ach. 1, 164.—5. Prima fax (noctis), early torchlight, immediately after dark (post-class.); cf.: luminibus accensis, Auct. B. Afr. 89: tempus diei occiduum, mox suprema tempestas, hoc est diei novissimum tempus: deinde vespera: ab hoc tempore prima fax dicitur, deinde concubia, etc., Macr. S, 1, 3 fin.; Gell. 3, 2, 11; 18, 1fin.; App. M. 2, p. 119, 20.II.Trop.A.That which illuminates, makes conspicuous (poet.): incipit parentum nobilitas facem praeferre pudendis, Juv. 8, 139; cf. Sall. J. 80.—B.That which inflames or incites, incitement, stimulus, cause of ruin, destruction (freq. and class.): cum corporis facibus inflammari soleamus ad omnes fere cupiditates eoque magis incendi, quod, etc., Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 44: me torret face mutua Calais,
, Cic. de Or. 2, 51, 205; cf.: alicui quasi quasdam verborum faces admovere, id. ib. 3, 1, 4: alicui acriores ad studia dicendi faces subdere, Quint. 1, 2, 25 Spald.: hortator studii causaque faxque mei,
guide
,
leader
, Ov. Pont. 1, 7, 28; and: incitator et fax omnium, Prud. stef. 10, 67: subicere faces invidiae alicujus, Cic. Mil. 35, 98; cf.: flagrantibus jam militum animis velut faces addere, Tac. H. 1, 24: acerrimam bello facem praetulit, id. ib. 2, 86: (rogationes promulgavit) duas faces novantibus res ad plebem in optimates accendendam, Liv. 32, 38, 9: inde faces ardent, a dote, Juv. 6, 139: adolescentulo ad libidinem facem praeferre, i. e. to be a leader or guide, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 13: Antonius omnium Clodi incendiorum fax,