1. lampăs — Lewis & Short
lampăs, ădis (late Lat. also lampă-da, ae,
Jul. Val. Rer. G. Alex. 3, 28:I
lampadarum,Vulg. Ezech. 1, 13), f., = lampa/s, a light, torch, flambeau (mostly poet.; cf.: lucerna, lychnus, laterna).
I Lit.:
lampades ardentes,Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 86: illatae lampades, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 41:
lampadas igniferas,Lucr. 2, 25:
vidi argenteum Cupidinem cum lampade,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 47, § 115:
pinguis,Ov. M. 4, 403:
pingues lampades,Lucr. 4, 403:
ardens,Verg. A. 9, 535:
Salmoneus, dum flammas Jovis imitatur, lampada quassans,id. ib. 6, 587:
lampadibus densum rapuit funale coruscis,with torches, Ov. M. 12, 247; Vulg. Exod. 20, 18:
lampas ignis,id. Gen. 15, 17.—Used at weddings, a wedding-torch:
tene hane lampadem,Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 17; Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 9. —Hence, poet.:
lampade primā,at her wedding, Stat. S. 4, 8, 59; cf. id. ib. 1, 2, 4.—
B Esp., a lamp:
ferreae lampades,Col. 12, 18, 5:
aënea,Juv. 3, 285:
praecinctae lampades auro,Ov. H. 14, 25:
accipere oleum cum lampadibus,Vulg. Matt. 25, 4.—
II Trop.
A From the Grecian torch-race (which consisted in keeping the torch burning during the race and handing it, still lighted, to the next one), are borrowed the expressions: lampada tradere alicui, to give or resign one's occupation to another:
nunc cursu lampada tibi trado,now it is your turn, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 9:
quasi cursores, vitai lampada tradunt,i. e. they finish their course, die, Lucr. 2, 79:
qui prior es, cur me in decursu lampada poscis?i. e. do you wish to succeed to my estate while I am yet alive? Pers. 6, 61.—
B In gen., splendor, brightness, lustre:
aeterna mundl,Lucr. 5, 402; cf.:
rosea sol alte lampade lucens,id. 5, 610:
Phoebeae lampadis instar,the light of the sun, the sun, Verg. A. 3, 637:
postera cum primā lustrabat lampade terras Orta dies,the first beams of light, first rays of dawn, id. ib. 7, 148.—
C Hence, poet., like lumen, for day:
octavoque fere candenti lumine solis Aut etiam nonā reddebant lampade vitam,on the ninth day, Lucr. 6, 1198;
so of the moonlight: decima lampas Phoebes,Val. Fl. 7, 366; cf.:
cum se bina formavit lampade Phoebe,i. e. after two moons, Nemes. Cyn. 130:
lampade Phoebes sub decima,the tenth month, Val. Fl. 7, 366.—
D A meteor resembling a torch:
emicant et faces, non nisi cum decidunt visae. Duo genera earum: lampades vocant plane faces, alterum bolidas,Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96; cf. Sen. Q. N. 1, 15:
nunc sparso lumine lampas emicuit caelo,Luc. 1, 532; 10, 502.