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eluceo

eluceo · v. n

to shine out

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Where it lives

Chabrias 1 · 20.45/10k
Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 2 · 2.14/10k
De Officiis 5 · 1.48/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Orator 2 · 1.08/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
De Republica 2 · 0.92/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-lūcĕo — Lewis & Short

ē-lūcĕo, xi, 2, v. n.,

I to shine out, shine forth (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. sense and in Cic.).

I Lit.: inter flammas circulus elucens, Cic. Rep. 6, 16, 16.—Poet., of the golden glittering of bees, Verg. G. 4, 98: illa flamma, quae ex L. Marcii capite eluxit, Val. Max. 1, 6, 2.—

II Trop., to shine out, show itself; to be apparent, manifest (cf.: appareo, exsisto, effero): scintilla ingenii jam tum elucebat in puero, Cic. Rep. 2, 21; cf. id. Cael. 19, 45; id. Off. 1, 29, 103; 1, 28, 98; id. de Or. 2, 13, 55; id. Or. 40 fin.; Quint. 1, 1, 2; 8, 6, 4 al.: ex quo elucebit omnis constantia, Cic. Off. 1, 29, 102; cf. id. Part. 12: Haec (benevolentia) magis elucet inter aequales, id. Lael. 27, 101; id. Fam. 4, 3, 2; id. Lael. 14; id. Rosc. Am. 31: argumentum prius est enarrandum, quo ratio eluceat, Lact. 7, 14, 6; Nep. Paus. 1, 6, 2; Lucr. 2, 1051 al.

In the wild

eluceat Cicero, De Officiis 1.103
elucet Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.1.2
eluxerunt Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.34.7.10
eluxit Suetonius, Tiberius 57.1
elucens Cicero, De Republica 6.16
elucent Vergil, Georgicon 4.98

6 of 56 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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