set on fire
set on fire: both lit. and fig.:
1. incendo, ndi, nsum, 3: they s. all their towns and villages on fire, oppida sua omnia, vicosque incendunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 5, init.: he ordered the fleet to be s. on fire, classem incendique jussit, Cic. Verr. 5, 35, 91: to s. incense on fire, tus et odore in., ib. 4, 35, 77: v.TO FIRE .
2. accendo, di, sum, 3 (to light up, kindle): God s.s the sun on fire, Deus solem accendit, Cic. Tusc. 9, 28.
1. incendo, ndi, nsum, 3: they s. all their towns and villages on fire, oppida sua omnia, vicosque incendunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 5, init.: he ordered the fleet to be s. on fire, classem incendique jussit, Cic. Verr. 5, 35, 91: to s. incense on fire, tus et odore in., ib. 4, 35, 77: v.
2. accendo, di, sum, 3 (to light up, kindle): God s.s the sun on fire, Deus solem accendit, Cic. Tusc. 9, 28.