Emico, émicas, pe. cor. emícui, & emicáui, emicâtum, emicâre Plaut.To shine forth: to daunce or leape vp: to appeare higher than other: to excel: to come or issue forth sodainely.Emicare de. Pli. Dracones emicuisse de extls oraditur. That serpents appeared or sodainely came out of the intrales of the sacrisice.Emicare ex vna radice. Pl To rise or spring out of one roote.Flammæ acrior vis est, quo ex maiori incendio emicuit. Sen. Out of the greater fire the flame riseth.Ignis emicuit. Claud. Sanguis emicat per mille foramina. Sta. Bloud issueth forth at a thousand places.Sol emicuit super terras. Valer. Flacc. The sunne rose or appeared. Emicare in iugum. Colum. To rise and grow vp vpon the frame.Continuò meum cor cœpit in pectus emicare. Plau. By and by my hart began to leape in my bodie.Emicat Euryalus.Virg.Euryalus commeth forth or sheweth himselfe.-iuuenum manus emicat ardens Littus in Hesperium. Vir. A company of lusty yong men quicklye leapte out of their ships vpon the shoare of the coast of Italy.Ante oculos emicuit. Valer. Flace. He appeared before them.In fata alieuius emicare.Val. Flac.To step forth sodainely & kil one.In prelia victor emicat. Sil. After he had ouercome, he shewed himself couragiously in the field. Emicuit longè ante omnes Euphranor. Pli. Eufranor far excelled al other.Præ ommbus emicat Nisus.Virg.Nisus excelleth.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-mĭco, cŭi (cf. Quint. 1, 6, 17), cātum, 1, v. n., to spring out, spring forth, to break forth, appear quickly (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; in Cic. and Caes. not at all). A.Lit.: emicat ex oculis, spirat quoque pectore flamma, Ov. M. 8, 356: flamma ex monte, Plin. 2, 88, 89, 203: multi calami ex una radice, id. 27, 8, 40, 62: dracones de extis, id. 11, 37, 77, 197: fulgura ab omni parte caeli, Curt. 8, 4: corpore sanguis (so Lachm.; Munro, e corpore), Lucr. 2, 195: uterque pronus carcere, Ov. M. 10, 652: scaturigines, Liv. 44, 33: cruor alte, Ov. M. 4, 121: sanguis per foramen, id. ib. 9, 130: scintillae inter fumum, Quint. 8, 5, 29: sol super terras, Val. Fl. 4, 96; cf. dies, id. 1, 655: telum nervo, Ov. M. 5, 67; cf.: saxa tormento, Liv. 44, 10: hostem rati, emicant, sine discrimine insultant, rushforth, Flor. 1, 18, 4 et saep.: (sanguis) in illam partem, Lucr. 4, 1050: juvenum manus emicat ardens in litus, Verg. A. 6, 5; cf.: in currum, id. ib. 12, 327: Nisus ante omnia corpora, id. ib. 5, 319: sanguis in altum, Ov. M. 6, 260: rami in excelsum, Plin. 12, 5, 11, 23 al.; cf. comically: cor coepit in pectus emicare, to leap, Plaut. Aul. 4, 3, 4.—2.Transf., to stretch forth, project: scopulus alto gurgite, Ov. M. 9, 225.—B.Trop., to be prominent or conspicuous, to become apparent: inter quae verbum emicuit si forte decorum, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 73: Agrippinae is pavor, ea consternatio mentis emicuit, ut, etc., Tac. A. 13, 16.—Esp. of good qualities, etc.: quos et magnitudine animi et claritate rerum longe emicuisse,