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splendentia, ae, f. [splendeo], brilliancy (late Lat.), Hier. Ep. 57, 11.

splendĕo, ēre (perf. splendui, Aug. Conf. 10, 27), v. n., to shine, be bright; to gleam, glitter, glisten (mostly poet.; in Cic. only once in the trop. sense; syn.: luceo, fulgeo, niteo).

  1. I. Lit.: sparsis hastis longis campus splendet et horret, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Sat. v. 15 Vahl.): oculi splendent, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 101: splendens stella candida, id. Rud. prol. 3: scenaï simul varios splendere decores, Lucr. 4, 984: claro splendere colore, id. 5, 1258: splendet tremulo sub lumine pontus, Verg. A. 7, 9: labra splendentia, id. ib. 12, 417: sedes fulgenti splendent auro, Cat. 64, 44: splendet focus, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 7; cf.: paternum Splendet salinum, id. C. 2, 16, 14: (cubiculum) marmore splendet, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 38: Glycera splendens, Hor. C. 1, 19, 6: jam nec Lacaenae splendet adulterae Famosus hospes, id. ib. 3, 3, 25: quid fuco splendente genas ornare, Tib. 1, 8, 11; Mart. 4, 79, 2: splendebat hilare poculis convivium, Phaedr. 2, 24, 20.
  2. II. Trop., to shine, to be bright or illustrious: virtus lucet in tenebris splendetque per sese semper, * Cic. Sest. 28, 60: splendere alienā invidiā, Liv. 38, 53; cf. id. 22, 34; 10, 24, 11: auctores in equestri ordine splendentes, Plin. 8, 5, 4, § 10.
    Hence, P. a.: splendens, entis, brilliant: splendentior igne clipeus, Claud. Gigantom. 77.

splendesco (perf. dŭi, Aug. Conf. 10, 27), 3, v. inch. n. [splendeo], to become bright or shining, to derive lustre from a thing (rare; in Cic. only in a trop. sense).

  1. I. Lit.: incipiat sulco attritus splendescere vomer, Verg. G. 1, 46: vidimus Aetnaeā caelum splendescere flammā, Ov. P. 2, 10, 23: corpora … succo pinguis olivi Splendescunt, id. M. 10, 177: gladius usu splendescit, App. Flor. 3, p. 357: largo splendescat ignis ture, Sen. Herc. Oet. 691.
  2. II. Trop.: nihil est tam incultum, quod non splendescat oratione, Cic. Par. prooem. § 3: canorum illud in voce splendescit etiam in senectute, id. Sen. 9, 28: nec jam splendescit (opus) lima, sed atteritur, Plin. Ep. 5, 11, 3.