Crossword-Solution: LUMINE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Ennius of old has observed, that lumen de lumine, to light my candle at my neighbour's lamp, is one of the privileges that the practices of civil society concede.

Thus generated, like light begotten of light (lumen de lumine), the Logos creates the world, inspires the ancient prophets with their divine revelations, and finally reveals himself to mankind in the person of Christ.

Ille repente Accepit solitam flammam; notusque medullas Intravit calor, et labefacta per ossa cucurrit Non secus atque olim tonitru, cum rupta corusco Ignea rima micans percurrit lumine nimbos.

This our immoderate and illegitimate exasperation against this vice springs from the most vain and turbulent disease that afflicts human minds, which is jealousy: "Quis vetat apposito lumen de lumine sumi? Dent licet assidue, nil tamen inde perit;" ["Who says that one light should not be lighted from another light? Let them give ever so much, as much ever remains to lose."--Ovid, De Arte Amandi, iii.

This our immoderate and illegitimate exasperation against this vice springs from the most vain and turbulent disease that afflicts human minds, which is jealousy: “Quis vetat apposito lumen de lumine sumi? Dent licet assidue, nil tamen inde perit;” [“Who says that one light should not be lighted from another light? Let them give ever so much, as much ever remains to lose.”--Ovid, De Arte Amandi, iii.