FIERY Copy link • FIERYPROPR., igneus: ardens (glowing, etc.). IMPROPR., (a) Sparkling, ardens: fulgens. Fiery eyes, oculi ardentes, fulgentes: fiery color, coloris flamma. (b) Strong; e.g., wine, vinum validum (opposed to imbecillum, Plin., 14, 21, 27): vinum fervidum (hot, Hor., Sat., 2, 8, 38). (c) Full of spiritual or mental fire, etc., ardens (on fire, as it were; of the mind, a poet, etc.): fervidus (boiling up, as it were, with inward power or vivacity; e.g., youth, a speech): acer (energetic, strong, etc.; e.g., of an orator or his speech): calidus (full of warmth, etc., of the blood; also of a man himself). A fiery speech, oratio ardens, fervida; orationis incitatio: to be a fiery speaker, acrem esse in dicendo: fiery minds, ingenia fervida: a fiery horse, equus calidus or acer; equus ferocitate exsultans (while exhibiting his fiery temper): a fiery mind or temperament, ingenium ardens or fervidum a fiery youth, or a youth of fiery character, juvenis ferventis animi.