A.causus, i.e. bilious remittent fever (the endemic fever of the Levant), Hp.VM17 (pl.), Aph.3.21 (pl.), Arist.Pr.861b34, 862a2; “πυρέττειν καύσῳ” Id.Metaph.981a12; κ. στομάχου heartburn, Dsc. 1.43, al.: generally, fever, heat, Nic.Th.338.
II. in pl., lands fertilized by burning brushwood, etc., Ath.Med. ap. Orib.1.2.4.