FIRE-BRAND Copy link • FIRE-BRANDtitio (from τινθός, the fire-brand on the hearth): torris (from torreo; also, a burning piece of wood on the hearth, but especially of a funeral-pile, or altar, where it served for burning the corpses, or whatever was offered as a sacrifice): titio ardens: torris vivus († when blazing): titio and torris extinctus (when glimmering only, not blazing). An incendiary, incendiarius (PROP.): fax alicujus incendii: qui initium alicujus incendii fecit (both IMPROP.; the latter, Velleius, 2, 74, 4).