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refulgeo

refulgeo · v. n

to flash back

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Cathemerina 3 · 4.08/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 2 · 3.53/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-fulgĕo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-fulgĕo, si (collat. form refulgit, 2, v. n.,

Lucr. 2, 800 Lachm.),

I to flash back, reflect a shining light; to shine bright, glitter, glisten (mostly poet.).

I Lit., Lucr. 2, 800: fervidus ille Canis stellarum luce refulget, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 44, 114: Cynosura, id. ib. 2, 41, 106: nautis Stella, Hor. C. 1, 12, 28: ut sol a liquidā saepe refulget aquā, Ov. A. A. 2, 722: cum caerula nubes Solis inardescit radiis longeque refulget, Verg. A. 8, 623: galea radiis refulget, id. ib. 9, 374: Aeneas clarā in luce refulsit, id. ib. 1, 588; cf. id. ib. 2, 590: Venus roseā cervice, id. ib. 1, 402: corpus versicolori veste, Liv. 7, 10: discolor auri aura per ramos, Verg. A. 6, 204; Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 92: armis refulgentibus, Liv. 8, 10.— Poet.: late refulgent Ossibus campi, Sil. 9, 190. —

II Trop.: splendidaque a docto fama refulget aevo, Prop. 3, 20 (4, 19), 8: Jovis Tutela refulgens, Hor. C. 2, 17, 23: si dolosi spes refulserit nummi, Pers. prol. 12; cf.: tum refulsit certa spes liberorum parentibus, Vell. 2, 103, 4; Plin. 35, 9, 36, § 60; Sedul. 2, 227; 4, 153.

In the wild

refulgens Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.279
refulsit Prudentius, Cathemerina 12.29
refulget Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.722
refulsit Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.374
refulget Seneca, Phaedra 1
refulget Vergil, Aeneid 8.623

6 of 79 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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