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English	Latin
flame, fire	flamma
Foolish fire (will-o-the-wisp)	Ignis fatuus
he (or she) nourishes the poison in the veins, and is consumed by the hidden fire (Virgil, said of love that is hidden)	vulnus alit venis, et cæco carpitur igni
I have now completed a work that neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor sword, nor the consuming tooth of time, shall be able to destroy (Ovid, meant as irony)	jamque opus exegi quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignis, nec poterit ferrum, nec edax abolere vetustas
let it be done (air, fire, water, earth)	FIAT (Flatus Ignis Aqua Terra), or fiat
let there be fire	fiat ignem
Life is not a bowl of cherries, or, literally, Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong men	Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros
My hair is on fire	Mei capilli sunt flagrantes
O sacred simplicity! (Jan Hus, the martyred Czech religious reformer, upon seeing a woman hurrying to throw a piece of wood on the fire)	O sancta simplicitas!
only stir the fire with a sword (Horace)	ignem gladio scrutare modo
out of the smoke into the flame (i.e., out of the frying pan and into the fire)	de fumo in flammam
set on fire	extermino, exuro; exussum
the fire should not be stirred by the sword	ignis gladio non fodiendus
the house of your neighbor, Ucalegon, is on fire (i.e., beware that it might spread to your own) (Virgil)	proximus ardet Ucalegon
the more brightly the fire has burnt, the sooner it is extinguished (Seneca)	ignis, quo clarior fulsit, citius exstinguitur

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Total number of language pairs: 544
Total number of translations (in millions): 15.4