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.—
2. In partic., the ashes of the dead still glowing: “corporis favillam ab reliquo separant cinere,” Plin. 19, 11, 4, § 19: “ibi tu calentem Debita sparges lacrima favillam Vatis amici,” Hor. C. 2, 6, 23; Tib. 3, 2, 10; Prop. 1, 19, 19; Verg. A. 6, 227; Ov. F. 3, 561.—
B. Transf.: “salis,” powder of salt, Plin. 31, 7, 42, § 90.—*