con-crĕmo, āvi, ātum, 1,
v. a., to burn up, consume (perh. not before the Aug. per.): vivos igni, Liv. 3, 53, 5; cf. id. 9, 12, 8: hostilia arma subdito igne, id. 8, 30, 8: urbem igni, id. 6, 33, 4: omnia tecta, id. 5, 42, 2: domos, id. 21, 14, 4: duas naves fulminis ictu, id. 41, 9, 5: commentarios, Suet. Calig. 15: epistulas, id. Oth. 10: quantum cinnamomi, Plin. 12, 18, 41, § 83: urbes, Sen. Ep. 9, 19: funebres rogos, Sen. Hippol. 1216.