The corpus record — Latin

enitesco

to shine forth

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Where it lives

De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ē-nĭtesco — Lewis & Short

ē-nĭtesco, -nitŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to shine forth, shine out, become bright (freq. in the post-Aug. per.).

I Lit.: ut (oculi) in hilaritate enitescant, Quint. 11, 3, 75.—Poet.: enitescis pulchrior multo (Barine), Hor. C. 2, 8, 6.—

II Trop., to shine forth, become distinguished: sibi novum bellum exoptabat, ubi virtus enitescere posset, Sall. C. 54, 4: gloria, Auct. Her. 4, 44, 57; cf. Gell. 17, 21, 33: facundia, Quint. 10, 5, 14; cf. Tac. Or. 20: utque studiis honestis et eloquentiae gloria enitesceret, id. A. 12, 58: plebs togā (i. e. pacis artibus), id. ib. 11, 7.

In the wild

enitesceret Tacitus, Annales 11.p7
enitescant Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.75
enitesceret Seneca, De Providentia 1.4.3
enitescet Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 2.5.23
enitescis Horace, Carmina 2.8
enitescere Sallust, Catilina 53.p2

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