Caleo, cales, calui, calére. Plaut.To be hote or warme.Thure calent aræ.Virg. Calere per translationem res dicitur, dum adhuc recens est eáque adhuc fit.Plaut. Nihil est, nisi dum calet, hoc agitur. While it is hote or new.Calere res dicitur aliter.Cic. Posteaquam satis calere res Rubrio visa est. After he sawe them somewhat earncst or hore in the matter.Calences adhuc ab recenti pugna Romani.Liu.Comming fresh and newly from the late battayle.Aures nostræ calent illius crimiuibus.Cic.Be chafed with often hearing his faulres: or heare nothing else.Caluit crimen re recenti.Cic.That accusation was earnestly followed in the beginning, or was hote and much spoken of while the matter was freshe.Laudis cupidine calere.Ouid.To be desirous of.Calent iudicia di xit.Cic.The iudges haue much a do: or are busily occupied.Calere dicuntur etiam rumores. Cælius Ciceroni. To be in euery mans mouth: to be oft reported.Studio scribendi calere. Horat. To be earnest in.Sudor per membra caler. Claud. Sudore belli calere. Stat.Mero calet virtus. Horat. Manly courage is fierce. Calere, in rebus agendis acriter & strenuè versari.Cicer.Quæris an ego, quum omnes calent, ignauiter aliquid faciam.To be hote or earnest in. Calere etiam dicuntur, quos molestissimis rebus perturbatos inexplicabilis agitur cogitatio, quod etiã Æstuare dicimus.Cic.To be sore tronbled or vered in minde. Calere.Stat.To desire greatly. Fœmina aliqua calere. Horat. To be in loue with. Calêtur, pen. prod. Impersonale. Plaut.They be hote.
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călĕo, ui, 2, v. n. (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. ske/llw, sklhro/s], 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). With inf.: tubas audire, Stat. Th. 4, 261; Claud. Nupt. Hon. 10, 287; id. Ep. 1, 29.— (g). With ad: ad nova lucra, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 62.—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
, id. 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,