Meaning of lampas | Babel Free

Definitions

1. lamp, lantern
   declension-3, feminine
2. torch, firebrand, flambeau
   declension-3, feminine

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Examples

“illius ex oculis, cum vult exurere divos, / accendit geminas lampadas acer Amor. From her eyes, when he wants to burn up the gods, does fierce Love kindle his twin torches― Stephen Hinds, « Venus, Varro and the vates: toward the limits of etymologizing interpretation », Dictynna, 3 | 2006”

“si non aurea sunt iuvenum simulacra per aedes / lampadas igniferas manibus retinentia dextris”

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“princeps ardentem coniecit lampada Turnus / et flammam adfixit lateri, quae plurima vento / corripuit tabulas et postibus haesit adesis.”

First Turnus hurled a burning torch and to the [tower's] side affixed its fire, which, fanned by the wind, seized the planks and clung to the doorposts it had devoured.― Michael C. J. Putnam, "Possessiveness, Sexuality, and Heroism in the Aeneid", Virgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and Influence, 35

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