The corpus record — Latin

dilucesco

to grow light, to begin to shine, to dawn

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Where it lives

Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

dīlūcesco — Lewis & Short

dīlūcesco, luxi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [diluceo], to grow light, to begin to shine, to dawn; in the perf., to shine (rare but class.).

I Impers.: cum jam dilucesceret, Cic. Cat. 3, 3: jam dilucescebat, cum signum consul dedit, Liv. 36, 24; and so transf.: discussa est illa caligo ... diluxit, patet, videmus omnia, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 5.—

II Pers.: omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum, etc., * Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 13; cf. Gell. 3, 2.— Trop.: donec diluxit rerum genetalis origo, Lucr. 5, 176: ista dilucescant allucente misericordiā tuā, August. Civ. D. 11, 22.

In the wild

diluxit Cicero, Philippicae 12.5
diluxit Seneca, De Beneficiis 3.27.1
dilucesceret Cicero, In L. Catilinam 3.6
diluxit Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.176
diluxisse Horace, Epistulae 1.4.13
diluxerit Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.2.3

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