ful-gens

fulgeo, fulsi, 2 (ante-class. and poet. form acc. to the third conj.: fulgit, Lucil. and Pompon. ap. Non. 506, 8 and 9; Lucr. 5, 768 Lachm. N. cr.; 6, 160; 174; 214; fulgĕre, Pac., Att., Lucil. ap. Non. 506, 17 sq.; Lucr. 5, 1095; 6, 165; Verg. A. 6, 826; Val. Fl. 8, 284 al.; cf. Sen. Q. N. 2, 56), v. n. [Sanscr, bhrāg', to glow, gleam; Gr. phlegô, phlegethô, to burn, phlox, flame;

Lat. fulgur, fulmen, fulvus, flagrare, flamma, flāmen,

Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 187 ], to flash, to lighten (syn.: fulguro, splendeo, luceo).

Lit.:

si fulserit, si tonuerit, si tactum aliquid erit de caelo,

Cic. Div. 2, 72, 149:

cum aestate vehementius tonuit quam fulsit,

Plin. 18. 35, 81, § 354; Mel. 1, 19, 1; Lucr. 6, 160; 165:

Jove fulgente cum populo agi nefas esse,

Cic. Vatin. 8, 20; cf.:

Jove fulgente, tonante... caelo fulgente, tonante,

id. N. D. 2, 25, 65;

v. fulguro: tremulo tempestas impete fulgit,

Lucr. 6, 174:

fulsere ignes et aether,

Verg. A. 4, 167:

picei fulsere poli,

Val. Fl. 1, 622.—

Trop., of the vivid oratory of Pericles:

qui (Pericles) si tenui genere uteretur, numquam ab Aristophane poëta fulgere, tonare, permiscere Graeciam dictus esset,

Cic. Or. 9, 29 (acc. to Aristoph. Acharn. 530 sq.: Perikleês Oulumpios Êstrapten, ebronta, xunekuka tên Hellada); cf.:

fulgurare ac tonare,

Quint. 2, 16, 19.—

Transf., to flash, glitter, gleam, glare, glisten, shine (syn. splendeo).

Lit.:

qui nitent unguentis, qui fulgent purpurā,

Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5:

marmorea tecta ebore et auro fulgentia,

id. Par. 1, 3, 13:

fulgentia signis castra,

Hor. C. 1, 7, 19: qui caelum versat stellis fulgentibus aptum, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 30 Vahl.); so id. ib. (Ann. v. 162 ib.):

caelo fulgebat luna sereno,

Hor. Epod. 15, 1; cf. id. C. 2, 16, 3; Ov. M. 2, 722:

fulgens contremuit domus Saturni (i. e. caelum),

Hor. C. 2, 12, 8:

micantes fulsere gladii,

Liv. 1, 25, 4; cf.:

fulgente decorus arcu Phoebus,

Hor. Carm. Sec. 61:

felium in tenebris fulgent radiantque oculi,

Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 151:

fulgentes oculi,

Hor. C. 2, 12, 15:

fulgentes Cycladae (on account of their marble),

id. ib. 3, 28, 14 (for which:

nitentes Cycladae,

id. ib. 1, 14, 19):

stet Capitolium fulgens (corresp. to lucidae sedes Olympi),

id. ib. 3, 3, 43:

argenti quod erat solis fulgebat in armis,

Juv. 11, 108.—

Trop., to shine, glitter; be conspicuous, illustrious (rare and mostly poet.):

(virtus) Intaminatis fulget honoribus,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 18:

indoles virtutis jam in adulescentulo,

Nep. Eum. 1, 4:

quondam nobili fulsi patre,

Sen. Med. 209:

fulgens imperio fertilis Africae,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 31:

fulgens sacerdotio,

Tac. H. 4, 42:

quae sanguine fulget Juli,

Juv. 8, 42.—Hence, ful-gens, entis, P. a., shining, glittering; in a trop. sense, illustrious.—Comp.:

fulgentior,

Sen. Ep. 115, 4.— Sup.:

Messala fulgentissimus juvenis,

Vell. 2, 71, 1:

opus Caesaris,

id. 2, 39, 1:

(M. Tullius) fulgentissimo et caelesti ore,

id. 2, 64, 3:

duo fulgentissima cognomina patris et patrui,

Val. Max. 3, 5, 1.— Adv.: fulgenter, glitteringly, resplendently.

Lit.:

quia sic fulgentius radiant,

Plin. 10, 20, 22, § 43. —

Trop.:

fulgentius instrui poterat luxuria, certe innocentius,

Plin. 22, 2, 3, § 4.