I.perf. splendui, Aug. Conf. 10, 27), v. n., to shine, be bright; to gleam, glitter, glisten (mostly poet.; in Cic. only once in the trop. sense; syn.: luceo, fulgeo, niteo).
I. Lit.: sparsis hastis longis campus splendet et horret, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Sat. v. 15 Vahl.): “oculi splendent,” Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 101: “splendens stella candida,” id. Rud. prol. 3: “scenaï simul varios splendere decores,” Lucr. 4, 984: “claro splendere colore,” id. 5, 1258: “splendet tremulo sub lumine pontus,” Verg. A. 7, 9: “labra splendentia,” id. ib. 12, 417: “sedes fulgenti splendent auro,” Cat. 64, 44: “splendet focus,” Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 7; cf.: “paternum Splendet salinum,” id. C. 2, 16, 14: “(cubiculum) marmore splendet,” Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 38: “Glycera splendens,” Hor. C. 1, 19, 6: “jam nec Lacaenae splendet adulterae Famosus hospes,” id. ib. 3, 3, 25: “quid fuco splendente genas ornare,” Tib. 1, 8, 11; Mart. 4, 79, 2: “splendebat hilare poculis convivium,” Phaedr. 2, 24, 20.—
II. Trop., to shine, to be bright or illustrious: virtus lucet in tenebris splendetque per sese semper, * Cic. Sest. 28, 60: “splendere alienā invidiā,” Liv. 38, 53; cf. id. 22, 34; 10, 24, 11: “auctores in equestri ordine splendentes,” Plin. 8, 5, 4, § 10.—Hence, P. a.: splendens , entis, brilliant: “splendentior igne clipeus,” Claud. Gigantom. 77.
