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Meaning of 'Ignes' in English | Latin to English

Last Updated: June 15, 2026

Level: C2 Mastery

Meaning of 'Ignes' in English | Latin to English

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Aedificia ignes trahent.

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The buildings will catch fire. __d_f_c__ _gn_s tr_h_nt.

Then, amid the lurid light, / I see Troy sinking in the flames around, / and mighty Neptune's walls laid level with the ground. T_m v_r_ _mn_ m_h_ v_s_m c_ns_d_r_ _n _gn_s / _l__m _t _x _m_ v_rt_ N_pt_n__ Tr_j_.

Then, fired with passion and revenge, I burn / to quit Troy's downfall and exact the fee / such crimes deserve. _x_rs_r_ _gn_s _n_m_, s_b_t _r_ c_d_nt_m / _lc_sc_ p_tr__m _t sc_l_r_t_s s_m_r_ pœn_s.

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Aedificia ignes trahent.

The buildings will catch fire.

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Tum vero omne mihi visum considere in ignes / Ilium et ex imo verti Neptunia Troja.

Then, amid the lurid light, / I see Troy sinking in the flames around, / and mighty Neptune's walls laid level with the ground.

Exarsere ignes animo, subit ira cadentem / ulcisci patriam et sceleratas sumere pœnas.

Then, fired with passion and revenge, I burn / to quit Troy's downfall and exact the fee / such crimes deserve.

Quis deus, o Musae, tam saeva incendia Teucris avertit? Tantos ratibus quis depulit ignes?

What god, O Muses, kept such a cruel fire from the Trojans? Who prevented those terrible flames from devouring their ships?

Nos pavidi trepidare metu, crinemque flagrantem / excutere et sanctos restinguere fontibus ignes.

In haste we strive to quench the flame divine, / shaking the tresses of his burning hair.

📈 Frequency Metric: The term Tum vero omne mihi visum considere in ignes / Ilium et ex imo verti Neptunia Troja. ranks in the top 3% of daily spoken Latin.

Vidi Hecubam centumque nurus, Priamumque per aras / sanguine fœdantem, quos ipse sacraverat, ignes.

Saw where among a hundred daughters, stood / pale Hecuba, saw Priam's life-blood stain / the fires his hands had hallowed in the fane.

Vos, æterni ignes, et non violabile vestrum / testor numen, ait; vos, aræ ensesque nefandi, / quos fugi, vittæque deum, quas hostia gessi:

Ye powers inviolate, ever-burning lights! / Ye ruthless swords and altars, which I fled, / Ye sacred fillets, that adorned my head!

Hei mihi, qualis erat, quantum mutatus ab illo / Hectore, qui redit exuvias indutus Achilli, / vel Danaum Phrygios jaculatus puppibus ignes!

Ah me! how sad to view, / how changed from him, that Hector, whom of yore / returning with Achilles' spoils we knew, / when on the ships of Greece his Phrygian fires he threw.

Hoc erat, alma parens, quod me per tela, per ignes / eripis, ut mediis hostem in penetralibus, utque / Ascanium patremque meum juxtaque Creusam, / alterum in alterius mactatos sanguine cernam?

Dost thou for this, dear mother, me through fire / and foeman safely to my home restore; / to see Creusa, and my son and sire / each foully butchered in the other's gore, / and Danaans dealing slaughter at the door?

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Quin ubi transmissæ steterint trans æquora classes, / et positis aris jam vota in litore solves, / purpureo velare comas adopertus amictu, / ne qua inter sanctos ignes in honore deorum / hostilis facies occurrat et omina turbet.

Nay, when thy vessels, ranged upon her shore, / rest from the deep, and on the beach ye light / the votive altars, and the gods adore, / veil then thy locks, with purple hood bedight, / and shroud thy visage from a foeman's sight, / lest hostile presence, 'mid the flames divine, / break in, and mar the omen and the rite.

Hic canit errantem lunam solisque labores, / unde hominum genus et pecudes, unde imber et ignes; / Arcturum pluviasque Hyadas geminosque Triones; / quid tantum oceano properent se tingerent soles / hiberni, vel quæ tardis mora noctibus obstet.

The sun's eclipses and the changing moons, / whence man and beast, whence lightning and the rain, / Arcturus, watery Hyads and the Wain; / what causes make the winter nights so long, / why sinks the sun so quickly in the main.

Continuo venti volvunt mare magnaque surgunt / æquora: dispersi jactamur gurgite vasto. / Involvere diem nimbi, et nox humida cœlum / abstulit; ingeminant abruptis nubibus ignes. / Excutimur cursu, et cæcis erramus in undis. / Ipse diem noctemque negat discernere cœlo, / nec meminisse viæ media Palinurus in unda.

Winds roll the waters, and the great seas rise. / Dispersed we welter on the gulfs. Damp night / has snatched with rain the heaven from our eyes, / and storm-mists in a mantle wrapt the light. / Flash after flash, and for a moment bright, / quick lightnings rend the welkin. Driven astray / we wander, robbed of reckoning, reft of sight. / No difference now between the night and day / e'en Palinurus sees, nor recollects the way.

Postquam introgressi et coram data copia fandi, / maximus Ilioneus placido sic pectore coepit: / "O regina, novam cui condere Jupiter urbem / justitiaque dedit gentes frenare superbas, / Troes te miseri, ventis maria omnia vecti, / oramus: prohibe infandos a navibus ignes, / parce pio generi et propius res adspice nostras!"

Then, audience granted, as the fane they filled, / thus calmly spake the eldest of the train, / Ilioneus: "O queen, whom Jove hath willed / to found this new-born city, here to reign, / and stubborn tribes with justice to refrain, / we, Troy's poor fugitives, implore thy grace, / storm-tost and wandering over every main: / forbid the flames our vessels to deface, / mark our afflicted plight, and spare a pious race."

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📖 Semantic Context: "Nay, when thy vessels, ranged upon her shore, / rest from the deep, and on the beach ye light / the votive altars, and the gods adore, / veil then thy locks, with purple hood bedight, / and shroud thy visage from a foeman's sight, / lest hostile presence, 'mid the flames divine, / break in, and mar the omen and the rite."

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How do you say "The buildings will catch fire." in English?

The most natural translation is "Aedificia ignes trahent.".

How do you say "Then, amid the lurid light, / I see Troy sinking in the flames around, / and mighty Neptune's walls laid level with the ground." in English?

The most natural translation is "Tum vero omne mihi visum considere in ignes / Ilium et ex imo verti Neptunia Troja.".

How do you say "Then, fired with passion and revenge, I burn / to quit Troy's downfall and exact the fee / such crimes deserve." in English?

The most natural translation is "Exarsere ignes animo, subit ira cadentem / ulcisci patriam et sceleratas sumere pœnas.".

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