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făvilla , ae, f. Sanscr. root bhā-, to shine; Gr. φα-, φῶς, etc., cf. Lat. fax,
I.hot cinders or ashes, glowing ashes, embers (cf. cinis).
I. Lit. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): ibi favillae plena coquendo sit faxo (psaltria). Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 60: “scintillas agere ac late differre favillam,Lucr. 2, 675; cf. Ov. M. 7, 80; and: “cum contectus ignis ex se favillam discutit scintillamque emittit,Plin. 18, 35, 84, § 358: “candens,Verg. A. 3, 573: “cana,Ov. M. 8, 525: “e carbone restincto favilla digito sublata,Plin. 26, 11, 72, § 118: “cinis e favilla et carbonibus ad calefaciendum triclinium illatus,Suet. Tib. 74: “nihil invenit praeter tepidam in ara favillam,id. Galb. 18: vi pulveris ae favillae oppressus est. (Plinius), Suet. Fragm. Hist., ed. Roth, p. 301.—
B. Transf.: “salis,powder of salt, Plin. 31, 7, 42, § 90.—*
II. Trop., a glimmering spark, i. e. beginning, origin: “haec est venturi prima favilla mali,Prop. 1, 9, 18.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.80
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.525
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.573
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.227
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.675
    • Suetonius, Galba, 18
    • Suetonius, Tiberius, 74
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 19.19
    • Ovid, Fasti, 3
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