fax

The letters, telephone calls, and fax messages started pouring into the Lyceum.

It is to be connected, it would seem, etymologically with fax, 'a torch'.

May we not say in mythology as in literature, Fax mentis incendium gloria?

The difficulty, then, is how fax we are ourselves the objects of our senses.

Fax mentis incendium glori—The flame of glory is the torch of the mind.

Fax is the general expression for any sort of torch; tda is a natural pine torch; funale, an artificial wax-torch.