I.part. fut. act. călĭtūrus, Ov. M. 13, 590: caleor = caleo, Caper. ap. Prisc. p. 797 P.; prob. only in reference to the impers. caletur, Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 12; id. Truc. 1, 1, 46) [etym. dub.; cf. Gr. σκέλλω, σκληρός], to be warm or hot, to glow (object.; opp. frigere, to be cold; while aestuare, to feel, experience warmth; opp. algere, to feel cold; cf. Doed. Syn. III. p. 89).
I. Lit.: calet aqua; “eamus hinc intro ut laves,” Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 73: “sentiri hoc putat, ut calere ignem,” Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 30: “os calet tibi,” Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 39: “sole calente,” Tib. 1, 5, 22: “terrae alio sole calentes,” Hor. C. 2, 16, 18: “calens favilla,” id. ib. 2, 6, 22: “ture calent arae,” Verg. A. 1, 417: “calentibus aris,” Ov. M. 12, 152: “calituras ignibus aras,” id. ib. 13, 590: “guttae calentes,” id. ib. 7, 283: “epulae,” id. ib. 8, 671: “sulphur,” id. ib. 14, 86.—Poet. sometimes for aestuare, subject., to feel warm: “ut fortunati sunt fabri ferrarii, Qui aput carbones adsident! semper calent,” Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 47: “febre,” Juv. 10, 218: “rabie,” Val. Fl. 3, 216; cf.: caluit et hodie Faustina, Aur. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 5, 11.—
II. Trop.
A. To glow in mind, to be roused, warmed, inflamed (class.; “in prose less freq. than ardere): (leones) permixtā caede calentes,” inflamed by indiscriminate slaughter, Lucr. 5, 1312; cf. id. 3, 643; Hirt. ap. Cic. Att. 15, 6, 2: “admirando, irridendo calebat,” Cic. Brut. 66, 234: “in re frigidissimā cales, in ferventissimā cales,” Auct. Her. 4, 15, 21: “animis jam calentibus,” Quint. 4, 1, 59: “Romani calentes adhuc ab recenti pugnā proelium ineunt,” Liv. 25, 39, 9: “at ille utendum animis dum spe calerent ratus,” are animated, Curt. 4, 1, 29: “feminā calere,” to become enamored of, Hor. C. 4, 11, 33; cf.: “Lycidan quo calet juventus,” id. ib. 1, 4, 19: “puellā,” Ov. Am. 3, 6, 83: “amore,” id. A. A. 3, 571; Mart. 7, 32, 12: “igne,” id. 5, 55, 3: “desiderio Conjugis abrepti,” to be inflamed with desire, Ov. M. 7, 731; also, to be troubled, perplexed: haec velim explices; “etsi te ipsum istic jam calere puto,” Cic. Att. 7, 20, 2; Cael. ap. id. Fam. 8, 6, 51: alio mentis morbo, to labor under (the figure derived from fever, v. supra), Hor. S. 2, 3, 80; “and so of the passion for scribbling: mutavit mentem populus levis et calet uno Scribendi studio,” now the rage for writing and versifying is the general disease of our people, id. Ep. 2, 1, 108: “narratur et prisci Catonis Saepe mero caluisse virtus,” id. C. 3, 21, 12; Stat. Th. 5, 263.—
B. Of abstract things, to be carried on warmly, to be urged on zealously: “illud crimen de nummis caluit re recenti, nunc in causā refrixit,” Cic. Planc. 23, 55: “judicia calent, i. e. magnā diligentiā et ardore exercentur,” id. Att. 4, 16, 3: “calebant nundinae,” id. Phil. 5, 4, 11: “posteaquam satis calere res Rubrio visa est,” i. e. seemed sufficiently ripe for execution, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66: “Veneris bella calent,” rage, Tib. 1, 10, 53: “et mixtus lacrimis caluit dolor,” Stat. Th. 3, 383.—
C. To be yet warm, new, or fresh (the figure taken from food): “at enim nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hic agitur,” Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92: illi rumores de comitiis caluerunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 2.—
D. (Effectus pro causā.) Of a place, to be eagerly sought, to be frequented (rare): “ungularum pulsibus calens Hister,” often trod, Mart. 7, 7, 2.