nam dum praecalidos igniculos sibi solvendis adolent et senio et gelu, dum virgas steriles atque superfluas flammis de fidei palmite concremant, ut concreta vagis vinea crinibus silvosi inluviem poneret idoli, palpavit nimius perniciem tepor.
For while they were making hot fires to relieve their weariness and cold, burning in the flames the barren and useless shoots from the vine of the faith, which had grown into a thick mass of gadding tresses, to rid it of its rank forest-growth of idolatry, the all too warm caress of the heat brought the plague to life.
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