I.“febrem,” Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 20; Sen. Ep. 14, 6; Quint. 2, 17, 9: “febrim,” Hor. S. 2, 3, 294; Plaut. Pseud. 2, 2, 48; Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 1; Plin. 25, 4, 17, § 37 Jan. et saep.— Abl.: “febri,” Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31; id. Att. 6, 9; “or: febre,” id. Att. 7, 1, 1; Suet. Vit. 14; Plin. Ep. 7, 1, 4: Juv. 10, 218 al.), f. for fer-bris, root bhar-, to be hot, v. ferveo, a fever.
I. Prop.: appellamus a calendo calorem, e fervore febrim, Varr. ap. Non. 46, 22: “quotidiana,” Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 22: “si cui venae sic moventur, hic habet febrem,” Cic. Fat. 8, 15; cf.: “febrim habere,” id. Fam. 7, 26, 1; Suet. Oth. 6: “aestu febrique jactari,” Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31: “te Romam venisse cum febri,” id. Att. 6, 9, 1; cf.: “cum febri domum rediit,” id. de Or. 3, 2, 6: “febri carere,” id. Fam. 16, 15, 1; “for which, in an altered construction: caruitne febris te heri?” Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 17: “cum sine febri laborassem,” Cic. Att. 5, 8, 1: “in febri,” id. Tusc. 1, 36, 88: “in febrim subito incidere,” id. Fam. 14, 8, 1: “febre liberari,” Cels. 2, 17: “febri liberari,” Plin. 26, 11, 71, § 116: “febre corripi,” id. 7, 51, 52, § 172: “febre calere,” Juv. 10, 218: “quem torret olim domestica febris,” i. e. at home in him, id. 9, 17: “vigili cum febre,” id. 13, 229: “reliquit eum febris,” Vulg. Johan. 4, 52.—In plur.: “vide, ne tertianas quoque febres et quartanas divinas esse dicendum sit,” Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 24: “febres aliae ab horrore incipiunt, aliae a frigore, aliae a calore,” Cels. 3, 3 sq.: “calidae febres,” Lucr. 2, 34: “opella forensis Adducit febres,” Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 9.—
B. Febris , personified as a deity, with three temples in Rome, the principal of which was on the Palatium, in the neighborhood of the Velabrum, Cic. N. D. 3, 25, 63; id. Leg. 2, 11, 28; Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 16; Val. Max. 2, 5, 6; cf.: “Febri divae, Febri sanctae, Febri magnae, Camilla pro filio amato,” Inscr. Grut. p. 97, 1.—*
