re-candēscō

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candesco, ui, 3, v. inch. n. [candeo], to become of a bright, glittering white, to begin to glisten or radiate (rare; mostly poet.):

ut solet aër candescere solis ab ortu,

Ov. M. 6, 49; Tib. 1, 10, 43.—

To begin to glow, to grow red hot:

ferrum candescit in igni,

Lucr. 1, 491; Ov. M. 2, 230; Vitr. 7, 9 fin; cf. candeo fin.

candeo, ui, 2, v. n. [Sanscr candami, to be light; candra, the moon; connected with caneo as ardeo with areo], to be brilliant, glittering, to shine, glitter, glisten (cf. candidus and albus; mostly poet.).

Lit.

Verb finit.:

candet ebur soliis collucent pocula mensae,

Cat. 64, 45:

ubi canderet vestis,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 103:

stellarum turba crasso lumine candet,

Manil. 1, 753. —

Part. and P. a.: candens, entis, = candidus, shining. dazzling, white, bright, glowing:

candens lacteus umor,

the bright, milky fluid, Lucr. 1, 259:

marmor,

id. 2, 767:

lucidus aër,

id. 4, 341:

lumen solis,

id. 6, 1196:

lumen,

id. 5, 720:

luna,

Vitr. 9, 4:

ortus,

Tib. 4, 1, 65.— Comp.:

candentior Phoebus,

Val. Fl. 3, 481.— Sup.:

sidus candentissimum,

Sol. 52.—

Esp., = albus, white:

ut candens videatur et album,

Lucr. 2, 771:

lana,

Cat. 64, 318:

lacerti,

Tib. 1, 8, 33:

umeri,

Hor. C. 1, 2, 31:

vacca,

Verg. A. 4, 61:

taurus,

id. ib. 5, 236:

cygnus candenti corpore,

id. ib. 9, 563:

candenti elephanto,

i. e. ivory, id. ib. 6, 895:

saxa,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 26:

lilia,

Ov. M. 12, 411:

candida de nigris et de candentibus atra facere,

id. ib. 11, 315 al.—

Transf., to glow with heat, be glowing hot (sometimes also in prose).

Verb finit.:

siccis aër fervoribus ustus Canduit,

Ov. M. 1, 120; Col. 1, 4, 9.—

Part. and P. a.:

ut calidis candens ferrum e fornacibus olim Stridit,

as the glowing iron taken from the hot furnace hisses, Lucr. 6, 148; imitated by Ov. M. 9, 170: candenti ferro, Varr. R. R. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 100 P.:

Dionysius candente carbone sibi adurebat capillum,

Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25:

candentes laminae,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 63, § 163 (al. ardentes); Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 36:

aqua candens,

Col. 6, 5, 2 (while Veg. 1, 17, 14, calens aqua). —

Trop., glowing with passion, excited (very rare):

cum viscera felle canduerint,

Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 226:

numquam Stilicho sic canduit ora,

id. Laud. Stil. 2, 82 (both of these examples are by some referred to candesco).

rĕ-candesco, dŭi, 3, v. inch. n. (Ovidian).

To grow white ( again):

percussa recanduit unda,

grew white with foam, Ov. M. 4, 529. —

To grow hot ( again), to glow:

ubi tellus Solibus aetheriis... recanduit,

Ov. M. 1, 435:

et rubuere genae, totoque recanduit ore (Medea),

id. ib. 7, 78.—

Trop.:

recanduit ira,

Ov. M. 3, 707.