caleant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →caleo, calere, calui, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be/feel/be kept warm; be hot with passion/inflamed/active/driven hotly/urged;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Mensarumque pedes non timet Hermogenes. Quamvis non modico caleant spectacula sole, Vela reducuntur, cum venit Hermogenes. Festinant trepidi..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...reddita est ratio. [24,1] Quare quaedam aquae caleant, quaedam etiam ferueant in tantum, ut non possint esse..."