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fervor

fervor · m

a boiling

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 1 · 1.95/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
De Architectura 10 · 1.73/10k
Punica 13 · 1.7/10k
De Rerum Natura 8 · 1.64/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fervor — Lewis & Short

fervor, ōris, m.ferveo,

I a boiling or raging heat, a violent heat, a raging, boiling, fermenting (class.; syn.: ardor, tepor, calor, aestus).

I Lit.: pollens fervore corusco, Lucr. 6, 237; cf. id. 6, 856: mundi ille fervor purior, perlucidior mobiliorque multo quam hic noster calor, Cic. N. D. 2, 11, 30: accepit calido febrim fervore coörtam, Lucr. 6, 656: febris, Plin. 31, 9, 45, § 104; cf.: caput incensum fervore gerebant, a raging heat, fever heat, Lucr. 6, 1145; Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 124: vis venti fervorem mirum concinnat in undis, Lucr. 6, 437; Luc. 4, 461.—In plur.: solis, Lucr. 5, 215; cf. ib. 605; 611: medii, i. e. noontide heat, Verg. G. 3, 154: capitis, Plin. 15, 4, 5, § 19.—

II Trop., heat, vehemence, ardor, passion: cum hic fervor concitatioque animi inveteraverit, Cic. Tusc. 4, 10, 24; cf.: fervor mentis, id. de Or. 1, 51, 220: pectoris, Hor. C. 1, 16, 24: erat quidam fervor aetatis, Cic. de Sen. 13, 45: fervore carentes anni (i. e. senectus), Sil. 7, 25: ut semel icto Accessit fervor capiti, i. e. intoxication, Hor. S. 2, 1, 25: maris, an excited, i. e. disturbed, unsafe condition of the sea (caused by pirates), Cic. Prov. Cons. 12, 31.—In plur.: pro vitiorum fervoribus, Gell. 20, 1, 22.

In the wild

feruorem Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.4.6
feruoris Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.12.p2
fervore Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.23.7.3
fervoribus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.16.p4
fervore Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.9.13
fervore Cicero, De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 31

6 of 108 attestations shown.

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