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|Definition=καύματος, τό, ([[καίω]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[burning heat]], especially of the [[sun]], [[καύματος ἔξ]] after [[sun-heat]], Il.5.865, cf. Hes.''Op.''415,588, Alc.39, S.''Ant.''417, Epinic.1.10, etc.; [[πρὶν ἂν τὸ καῦμα παρέλθῃ]] = till the [[heat of the day]] is past, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Phaedrus|Phdr.]]'' 242a, cf. ''Ti.''70d; ἐὰν ᾖ κ. [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Meteorologica|Mete.]]''342b10: freq. in plural, ἡλίου τε καύμασιν [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]''350, cf. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.104, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cynegeticus|Cyn.]]''5.9, etc.; [τόποι] ὑπὸ καυμάτων διαφθειρόμενοι Isoc.11.12; καύματα καὶ χειμῶνες Phld.''Piet.''87: in plural, also of [[frost]], Ath.3.98b, Luc.''Lex.''2.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[fever heat]], Th.2.49; of [[inflamed]] conditions, Hp.''VM''19, ''Aph.''7.13: metaph., of [[love]], κ. ἀρσενικόν ''AP''12.87.<br><span class="bld">II</span> in plural, [[καύματα]] = [[holes burnt by cautery]], Hp.''Art.''11, Arist.''Pr.''863a31.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[brand]] on [[cattle]], ''IG''7.3171.44 (Orchom. Boeot.).<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[embers]] of [[sacrifice]]s, Pl.''Criti.''12od.<br><span class="bld">V</span> [[firewood]], PLond.3.1166.6, al. (i A.D.).