The corpus record — Latin

reluceo

reluceo · v. n

to shine back

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Where it lives

De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 2 · 1.48/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-lūcĕo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-lūcĕo, xi, 2, v. n.,

I to shine back, shine out; to blaze, shine, glow, give light (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose): stella relucet, * Cic. Arat. Fragm. N. D. 2, 42, 107: flamma reluxit, Verg. G. 4, 385; cf.: relucens flamma, Liv. 22, 17; 30, 6: olli ingens barba reluxit, Verg. A. 12, 300; cf.: vestis fulgore reluxit Sacra domus, Ov. M. 11, 617: Sigea igni freta lata relucent, Verg. A. 2, 312: piscis lucerna tranquillis noctibus relucet, Plin. 9, 27, 43, § 82: focus reluxit vivo torre, Val. Fl. 3, 115: e Vesuvio flammae relucebant, Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 13; 8, 8, 2: pro favillā relucenti, Gell. 17, 10, 18.

In the wild

relucens Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 6.3
reluxit Vergil, Aeneid 12.300
relucente Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.14.p1
relucet Tertullian, De Pudicitia 9
relucentes Seneca, Agamemnon 1
relucentes Pliny the Younger, Letters 8.8.2

6 of 61 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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