deflagratio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dēflā̆grātĭo, ōnis, f. [deflagro], a burning up, consuming by fire, conflagration (perhaps only in Cic.).

I Prop.: futura aliquando caeli atque terrarum, Cic. Div. 1, 49, 111; cf.: terrarum omnium, id. Fin. 3, 19 fin.

II Trop., destruction , Cic. Planc. 40, 95

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