ARDENTES, in middle-age writers, an appellation given to those afflicted with the Iguis Sacer, or Erysipelas. They were thus called, as seeming to be scorch'd or burned with the disease. Hence also the abbey of St Genevieve at Paris is called Domus Ardentium, by reason, as it is said, that great numbers were cured of that distemper at the shrine of this saint, in the reign of Lewis VI.