I.v. inch. n., to grow warm or hot, to glow (mostly poet.; not in Cic.).
I. Lit.: “incalescente sole,” Liv. 22, 6, 9: “anni tempore jam incalescente,” Col. 2, 4, 1: “cum videas ordinem rerum per constituta procedere ... aestas suo tempore incaluit,” Sen. Q. N. 3, 16, 3 Haase (al. incanduit): “incaluerant vino,” Liv. 1, 57, 8; cf.: “incaluit vis illa mali (i. e. veneni),” Ov. M. 9, 161: “quis nostro curvum te funere vidit? Atram quis lacrimis incaluisse togam?” to glow with burning tears, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 28.—
II. Trop., to glow, kindle with passion (esp. love): “ergo ubi vaticinos concepit mente furores Incaluitque deo,” Ov. M. 2, 641: “vidit et incaluit pelagi deus,” id. ib. 2, 574; 3, 371; id. H. 11, 25: “acres Incaluere animi (equorum),” id. M. 2, 87; id. P. 3, 4, 30: “C. Gracchus,” Flor. 3, 15, 1: “laetitiā incaluisse,” Tac. H. 4, 14: “virtus incaluit,” Luc. 6, 240: “ad magnas cogitationes,” Tac. G. 22.
