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col-lūcĕo (conl-), ēre, v. n., to give light on every side, to shine brightly, to be wholly illuminated, to be bright or brilliant (class. in prose and poetry; not in Hor.).

  1. I. Prop.
          1. (α) Absol.: sol, qui tam longe lateque colluceat, Cic. N. D. 2, 15, 40: caelum conlucet omnibus, id. Univ. 9 med.: taeda per undas, * Lucr. 6, 883: collucent ignes, Verg. A. 9, 166; so, faces, id. ib. 4, 567; Curt. 3, 8, 22: per campum, Tac. A. 3, 4: lampades undique, Ov. H. 14, 25: pocula, Cat. 64, 45: plumae ignium modo, Plin. 10, 47, 67, § 132.
          2. (β) With abl.: candelabri fulgore, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 32, § 71: ignibus aedes, Ov. M. 4, 403: moenia flammis, Verg. A. 5, 4; Liv. 38, 6, 2: castra fulgore ignis, Curt. 3, 3, 3: polus ignibus, Stat. S. 1, 6, 89: omnia luminibus, Liv. 24, 21, 9: totus veste atque insignibus armis, Verg. A. 10, 539.
          3. (γ) Ab aliquā re (cf. ab, II.): (mare), quā a sole collucet, albescit et vibrat, Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 105.
  2. II. Trop., to shine, be resplendent: vidi collucere omnia furtis tuis, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 22, § 58; id. N. D. 2, 39, 99: collucent floribus agri, Ov. F. 5, 363; cf. Col. 3, 21, 3; 10, 293.

col-lūcesco, colluxi, 3,

  1. I. v. inch. n., to lighten up (late Lat.): colluxit flamma, Albin. ad Liv. 1, 287.
  2. II. Transf., to become clear, intelligible, Boëth. Syllog. Hypoth. 1, p. 623.

col-lūco (conl-), āre, v. a. [lux], to make light, to clear or thin a forest, etc.: collucare est succisis arboribus locum luce implere, Fest. s. v. sublucare, p. 348, 18 Müll. (explained in a different manner by Paul. ex Fest. p. 37, 12 ib.): lucum, Cato, R. R. 139: arborem, Col. 2, 21, 3.

colluctātĭo (conl-), ōnis, f. [colluctor], a wrestling, struggling, contending with something (post-Aug. prose).

  1. I. Prop.: in colluctatione vel pancratio, Dig. 9, 2, 7; so of the fighting of oxen, Col. 6, 2, 4.
  2. II. Trop., the death struggle, Sen. Q. N. 3, 18, 1.
    Of an embracing in love, App. M. 9, p. 219, 12; Lact. 1, 17.
    Of a difficult utterance: est aliis concursus oris et cum verbis suis colluctatio, Quint. 11, 3, 56.

colluctātor (conl-), ōris, m. [colluctor], prop. a wrestler; hence, in gen., an anlagonist, adversary, Lact. Opif. Dei, 1, 7.

col-luctor (conl-), āri, v. n., to struggle, contend, wrestle with (post-Aug. and rare); constr. with cum aliquo, alicui, or absol.: praedonibus, Prud. Ham. 523.
Absol., Just. 13, 8, 8; App. M. 2, p. 129.
Trop.: cum agro, Col. 1, 3, 9; cf.: cum solo, Plin. 27, 2, 2, § 5: cum petulantiā morbi, Gell. 12, 5, 9.