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călor , ōris, m. caleo; cf. Varr. ap. Non. p. 46, 22,
I.warmth, heat, glow.
I. Lit.
A. In gen. (very freq. in prose and poet.): neque mihi ulla obsistet amnis nec calor; “nec frigus metuo,Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 19; so (opp. frigus) Lucr. 2, 517; 6, 371; Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101; Verg. G. 2, 344; 4, 36; (opp. refrigeratio) Vitr. 1, 4: “calor ignis,Lucr. 1, 425: “solis,id. 5, 571; 6, 514: “fulminis,id. 6, 234.—In plur., Cic. Off. 2, 4, 13; id. N. D. 2, 60, 151; Hor. C. 3, 24, 37 al.
B. Esp.
2. Summer heat, the warmth of summer: “vitandi caloris causā Lanuvii tres horas acquieveram,Cic. Att. 13, 34 init.; id. de Or. 1, 62, 265.—Hence also for summer (opp. ver and autumnus), Lucr. 1, 175; Col. 11, 2, 48: “mediis caloribus,in the midst of summer, Liv. 2, 5, 3; so plur.: “ut tectis saepti frigora caloresque pellamus,Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 152.—
3. The glow of a hot wind (cf. Lucr. 6, 323: “vis venti commixta calore): dum ficus prima calorque, etc.,the burning heat of the parching Sirocco, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 5: “calores austrini,Verg. G. 2, 270 (cf.: “calidi Austri,Ov. M. 7, 532).—
4. The heat of a fever, Tib. 4, 11, 2.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen., the heat of passion, fire, zeal, ardor, impetuosity, vehemence (so perh. not before the Aug. per.; esp. freq. in Quint.; cf.: “ardor, fervor): si calor ac spiritus tulit,Quint. 10, 7, 13: “Polus juvenili calore inconsideratior,id. 2, 15, 28: “calor cogitationis, qui scribendi morā refrixit,id. 10, 3, 6; cf. id. 9, 4, 113: “calorem cogitationis exstinguere,id. 8, praef. § 27: “et impetus,id. 10, 3, 17: “dicendi,id. 11, 3, 130: “lenis caloris alieni derisus,id. 6, 2, 15: “dicentis,Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 11; 2, 19, 2: “pietatis,id. Pan. 3, 1: “ambitionis calor abducit a tutis,Sen. Ben. 2, 14, 5: “quod calore aliquo gerendum est, id. Ira, 3, 3, 5: cohortationis,Val. Max. 2, 6, 2: “iracundiae,Dig. 50, 17, 48: “Martius,Stat. Achill. 2, 26; Luc. 2, 324 et saep.—
B. Esp., ardent love, the fire of love: “trahere calorem,Ov. M. 11, 305; so id. H. 19, 173; Sil. 14, 223.—In plur. (cf. amores), Hor. C. 4, 9, 11; Ov. A. A. 1, 237.
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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 13.34
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.305
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 4.705
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.270
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.344
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 1.4
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.532
    • Plautus, Mercator, 5.2
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.62
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.425
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.517
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.129
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.571
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.234
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    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.175
    • Lucan, Civil War, 2.324
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.19
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 4.9.11
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 5.3
    • Seneca, de Beneficiis, 2.14.5
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.10
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.60
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.4
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 15.28
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, 2.15
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, pr.27
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    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 2.6.2
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