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  • 1 favīlla

        favīlla ae, f    [FAV-], cinders, hot ashes, glowing ashes, embers: favillae plena (psaltria), T.: candens, V.: cana, O.— The ashes of the dead: Vatis amici, H.: bibula, V.: virginea, O.—Fig., a glimmering spark, beginning: venturi mali, Pr.
    * * *
    glowing ashes, embers; spark; ashes

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  • 2 sublūstris

        sublūstris e, adj.    [sub + * lustrus; LVC-], giving some light, faintly luminous, glimmering: nox, L., H.: umbra (noctis), twilight, V.
    * * *
    sublustris, sublustre ADJ
    faintly lit, dim

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  • 3 sublustris

    faintly glimmering, faintly gleaming.

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  • 4 favilla

    făvilla, ae, f. [Sanscr. root bhā-, to shine; Gr. pha-, phôs, etc., cf. Lat. fax], hot cinders or ashes, glowing ashes, embers (cf. cinis).
    I.
    Lit. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose): ibi favillae plena coquendo sit faxo (psaltria). Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 60:

    scintillas agere ac late differre favillam,

    Lucr. 2, 675; cf. Ov. M. 7, 80; and:

    cum contectus ignis ex se favillam discutit scintillamque emittit,

    Plin. 18, 35, 84, § 358:

    candens,

    Verg. A. 3, 573:

    cana,

    Ov. M. 8, 525:

    e carbone restincto favilla digito sublata,

    Plin. 26, 11, 72, § 118:

    cinis e favilla et carbonibus ad calefaciendum triclinium illatus,

    Suet. Tib. 74:

    nihil invenit praeter tepidam in ara favillam,

    id. Galb. 18: vi pulveris ae favillae oppressus est. (Plinius), Suet. Fragm. Hist., ed. Roth, p. 301.—
    2.
    In partic., the ashes of the dead still glowing:

    corporis favillam ab reliquo separant cinere,

    Plin. 19, 11, 4, § 19:

    ibi tu calentem Debita sparges lacrima favillam Vatis amici,

    Hor. C. 2, 6, 23; Tib. 3, 2, 10; Prop. 1, 19, 19; Verg. A. 6, 227; Ov. F. 3, 561.—
    B.
    Transf.:

    salis,

    powder of salt, Plin. 31, 7, 42, § 90.—
    * II.
    Trop., a glimmering spark, i. e. beginning, origin:

    haec est venturi prima favilla mali,

    Prop. 1, 9, 18.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > favilla

  • 5 sublustris

    sublustris, e, adj. [sub-lux], giving some light, having a faint light, glimmering (not ante-Aug., and very rare).
    I.
    Lit.:

    nox,

    Hor. C. 3, 27, 31; Liv. 5, 47:

    umbra (noctis),

    Verg. A. 9, 373; Val. Fl. 3, 141.—
    * II.
    Trop.:

    eloquentiae Latinae lumina,

    Gell. 13, 24, 12.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > sublustris

  • 6 vibrabilis

    vī̆brābĭlis, e, adj. [vibro].
    * I.
    That may be brandished:

    ornus (i. e. hasta),

    Aus. Ep. 24, 108.—
    * II.
    Quivering, glimmering:

    sidus,

    Mart. Cap. 1, § 29.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > vibrabilis

  • 7 vibrabundus

    vī̆brābundus, a, um, adj. [id.], tremulous, glimmering:

    Mercurius (stella),

    Mart. Cap. 8, § 880.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > vibrabundus

  • 8 vibro

    vī̆bro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [cf. Sanscr. vip, to tremble].
    I. A.
    Lit.:

    hastas ante pugnam,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 325:

    hastam,

    id. Off. 2, 8, 29:

    flamina vestes,

    to cause to flutter, Ov. M. 1, 528:

    faces,

    Claud. Epith. 97:

    multifidas linguas (draco),

    Val. Fl. 1, 61:

    tremor vibrat ossa,

    makes tremble, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 152:

    viscera vibrantur (equitando),

    are shaken about, Tac. A. 12, 51:

    impositus scuto more gentis et sustinentium umeris vibratus, dux eligitur,

    id. H. 4, 15:

    digitis vibratis jactare sententias,

    Quint. 11, 3, 120:

    thyrsum manu,

    Sen. Oedip. 420:

    serpens squalidum crista caput vibrans,

    id. Herc. Oet. 1254.— Poet.:

    vibrata flammis aequora,

    i. e. glimmering, sparkling, Val. Fl. 8, 306:

    crines vibrati,

    i. e. curled, frizzled, Verg. A. 12, 100; Plin. 2, 78, 80, § 189.—

    Mid.: sic mea vibrari pallentia membra videres,

    Ov. H. 11, 77.—
    2.
    Transf., to throw with a vibratory motion, to launch, hurl:

    sicas et spargere venena,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 23:

    conferti et quasi cohaerentes tela vibrare non poterant,

    Curt. 3, 11, 4:

    tremulum excusso jaculum lacerto,

    Ov. H. 4, 43:

    per auras spicula,

    id. M. 8, 374:

    fulmina (Juppiter),

    id. ib. 2, 308; cf.:

    vibratus ab aethere fulgor,

    Verg. A. 8, 524:

    jaculum ex arborum ramis vibrari,

    Plin. 8, 23, 35, § 85. —
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    Of language, to fling, hurl, launch:

    truces vibrare iambos,

    Cat. 36, 5; cf. 2. vibratus, II.—
    2.
    To threaten:

    tela undique mortem vibrantia,

    Amm. 31, 13, 2. —
    II. A.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen., to shake, quiver, vibrate, tremble:

    linguā vibrante (serpentis),

    Lucr. 3, 657; Ov. M. 3, 34:

    terrae motus non simplici modo quatitur, sed tremit vibratque,

    Plin. 2, 80, 82, § 194.—
    2.
    Of the voice or sounds, to tremble:

    (haec vox) sonat adhuc et vibrat in auribus meis,

    Sen. Prov. 3, 3; cf.:

    sonus lusciniae vibrans,

    Plin. 10, 29, 43, § 82:

    querelā adhuc vibrante,

    Val. Max. 5, 3, 2:

    ejusmodi fabulae vibrabant,

    Petr. 47.—
    3.
    To glimmer, glitter, gleam, scintillate, etc.:

    mare, quā a sole collucet, albescit et vibrat,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 105: signa, Flor. 3, 11:

    in tremulo vibrant incendia ponto,

    Sil. 2, 664; Val. Fl. 2, 583; 2, 342; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 2.—Of bright weapons:

    juvenes Tela tenent dextrā lato vibrantia ferro,

    Ov. M. 8, 342:

    gladius,

    Verg. A. 9, 769; cf.:

    clipeum Vibranti medium cuspis transverberat ictu,

    id. ib. 10, 484.—
    B.
    Trop., of language:

    cujus (Demosthenis) non tam vibrarent fulmina illa, nisi numeris contorta ferrentur,

    would not have been hurled with such vigor, Cic. Or. 70, 234; cf.:

    oratio incitata et vibrans,

    id. Brut. 95, 326:

    sententiae,

    Quint. 10, 1, 60; 11, 3, 120. —Hence, vĭbrātus, a, um, P. a., impetuous, forcible:

    iambus flammis fulminis vibratior,

    Aus. Ep. 21, 5.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > vibro

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