vapor

văpor (ante-class. form văpos, Naev. ap. Non. 487, 10; Lucr. 6, 952; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 13), ōris, m. [Sanscr. kapis, incense; Gr. kapuô, kapnos, smoke; cf. vappa], steam, exhalation, vapor (syn. exhalatio).

I.

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.—

II.

In partic., a warm exhalation, warmth, heat, etc.

A.

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.—

B.

Trop., warmth, ardor of love:

pectus insanum vapor amorque torret,

Sen. Hippol. 640.