verb intransitive

sub-lūcĕo

2nd PP sub-lūcēre · conj. 2nd

to shine a little; to gleam faintly; to glimmer poetic ••

to shine a little, to gleam faintly, to glimmer (poet. and in post - Aug. prose): aries sublucet corpore totus, Cic. Arat. 289: crepuscula sublucent, Ov. Am. 1, 5, 5: si fragmenta (picis), subluceant, Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 127: (liquor) nigrantis rosae colore sublucens, id. 9, 36, 60, § 126: violae sublucet purpura nigrae, Verg. G. 4, 275; cf.: candida nec mixto sublucent ora rubore, Ov. H. 21, 217.

Perseus ID: n45971 Key: subluceo