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|lshtext=<b>văpor</b>: ([[ante]]-[[class]]. form văpos, Naev. ap. Non. 487, 10; Lucr. 6, 952; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 13), ōris, m. Sanscr. kapis, [[incense]]; Gr. [[καπύω]], [[καπνός]], [[smoke]]; cf. [[vappa]],<br /><b>I</b> [[steam]], [[exhalation]], [[vapor]] (syn. [[exhalatio]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: aquarum vapores, qui a [[sole]] ex agris tepefactis et ex aquis excitantur, Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118: aquarum [[quasi]] [[vapor]] [[quidam]] aër habendus est, id. ib. 2, 10, 27; Lucr. 6, 271: aquae calidae, Cels. 7, 7, 10; Scrib. Comp. 20: [[terrenus]] [[vapor]] [[siccus]] est et [[fumo]] [[similis]], qui ventos, tonitrua et fulmina facit: aquarum [[halitus]] [[umidus]] est et imbres et nives creat, Sen. Q. N. 2, 12, 4: nocturnos formidare vapores, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 93: volat [[vapor]] [[ater]] ad auras. [[smoke]], Verg. A. 7, 466; Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 40; Stat. Th. 10, 110; Sen. Herc. Fur. 911.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic., a [[warm]] [[exhalation]], [[warmth]], [[heat]], etc.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: ([[terra]] [[semen]]) tepefactum vapore et compressu suo diffundit, Cic. Sen. 15, 51: [[aestifer]] [[ignis]] uti [[lumen]] jacit [[atque]] vaporem, Lucr. 1, 663: solis, id. 1, 1032; 2, 150; 4, 185; 4, 201; 6, 236; Curt. 7, 5, 3; of the [[heat]] of the [[thunderbolt]]: inusta vaporis signa, Lucr. 6, 220: finditque vaporibus arva ([[Phoebus]]), Ov. M. 3, 152: siderum, Hor. Epod. 3, 15: lentusque carinas Est [[vapor]], Verg. A. 5, 683; cf. id. ib. 698: [[locus]] [[torridus]] et vaporis [[plenus]], Liv. 5, 48, 1: vapore foveri, Cels. 7, 7, 2; 7, 7, 10; 7, 9 fin.; 8, 4; 8, 7; Col. 1, 4, 10; 7, 3, 8 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., [[warmth]], [[ardor]] of [[love]]: [[pectus]] insanum [[vapor]] amorque torret, Sen. Hippol. 640.