Spléndidus, pen. cor. Adiectiuum. Cic.Bright: cleere: shining: goodly: beautiful: famous: noble: excellent: notable: that hath great bruite and renowne. He that hath his hause gorgeous, and richly decked with abundaunce of all things.Splendidus propter virtutem.Cic.Notable and renommed for vertue.Splendidus domi. gratiosus extra domum. Cic. Bilis splendida. Horat. Vide BILIS. Candor splendidissimus.Cic. Cera splendida. Ou. Crinis splendidus ostro.Ouid.Haire of bright red colour.Disputatio splendida.Cic.A notable disputationDomus splendida loxu regalt.Virg.An house richly adorued with princely gorgeousnesse.Eques splendidus.Cic.Facta splendida. Horat. Famous and notable actes.Fama splendida. Propert. Great and honourable renowne.Fons splendidior vitro. Hor. A fountaine more cleare than glasse.Humor splendidus sudoris. Lucrer. Ingenium splendidum.Cic.A goodly and excellent wit.Lucifer splendidior, qum cætera sydera. Oui. More bright.Lumina splendida solis. Lucret. Nomen splendidum.Cic.A name of muche renowne.Illuminati nominibus splendidis.Cic.Magnificentius & splendidius oratorum genus.Cic.Orbis splendidus oculi. Lucret. A cleere and bright eye.Palla splendida multo croco.Ouid.Tenere rationem splendidam.Cic.Signa splendida. Lucret. Bright and shining starres.Sol splendidior. Tibul. Verba splendida, Ouid.Gay eloquent words.Ornatissimus & splendidissimus vir.Cic.
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splendĭdus, a, um, adj. [splendeo], bright, shining, glittering, brilliant, etc. (class.; syn.: nitidus, lucidus, coruscus). I.Lit.A. In gen.: o magna templa caelitum, commixta stellis splendidis, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 6 Müll. (Trag. v. 227 Vahl.); so, signa caeli, Lucr. 4, 444: lumina solis, id. 2, 108: caelum cum aequaliter totum erit splendidum, Plin. 18, 35, 80, 351; cf. comp.: quanto splendidior quam cetera sidera fulget Lucifer, Ov. M. 2, 722: sol splendidior, Tib. 4, 1, 123.—Sup.: splendidissimus candor, Cic. Rep. 6, 16, 16: color (with flam neus), Lucr. 6, 208: ostro crinis, Ov. M. 8, 8: venabula. id. ib. 8, 419: fons splendidio vitro, Hor. C. 3, 13, 1; cf.: Galatea Splendidior vitro, Ov. M. 13, 791: umor sudoris, Lucr. 6, 1187: bilis, bright yellow, xolh\ canqh/, Hor. S. 2, 3, 141 (cf.: vitrea bilis, Pers. 3, 8). —B. In partic., of style of living, dress, etc., brilliant, splendid, magnificent, sumptuous (syn. magnificus): quorum in villā ac domo nihil splendidum fuit praeter ipsos, Cic. Par. 5, 2, 38: splendida domus gaudet regali gaza, Cat. 64, 46; Verg. A. 1, 637: vestis, Petr. 12; cf.: splendidus et virilis cultus, Quint. 11, 3, 137: homo (opp. luxuriosus), Vell. 2, 105, 2: secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—II.Trop.A. In gen., brilliant, illustrious, distinguished, noble (cf.: egregius, amplus): C. Plotius, eques Romanus splendidus, Cic. Fin. 2, 18, 58; cf.: vir splendidissimus atque ornatissimus civitatis suae, id. Fl. 20, 48: homo propter virtutem splendidus, id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, 38; Plin. Ep. 4, 4, 2: splendidissima ingenia, Cic. Off. 1, 8, 26; 1, 18, 61: causa splendidior, id. Rosc. Am. 49, 142; cf.: splendida facta, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 237: ratio dicendi, Cic. Brut. 75, 261; so, splendida et grandis oratio, id. ib. 79, 273; cf.: splendidius et magnificentius (genus dicendi), id. ib. 55, 201; cf.: figurarum commentis splendida loca attentare, brilliant passages of a speech, Amm. 29, 2, 8: splendidis nominibus illuminatus est versus, Cic. Or. 49, 163: splendidioribus verbis uti, id. Brut. 58: vox suavis et splendida,
clear
, id. ib. 55, 203: cum de te splendida Minos Fecerit arbitria, Hor. C. 4, 7, 21.—B. In partic. (with the accessory idea of mere appearance, opp. to what is real or actual), showy, fine, specious, = speciosus: non tam solido quam splendido nomine, Cic. Fin. 1, 18, 61: praetendens culpae splendida verba tuae, Ov. R. Am. 240.—C.Clear, distinct: vox, Cic. Brut. 55, 203.—Hence, adv.: splendĭdē, brightly, brilliantly.1.Lit.: ornare magnifice splendideque convivium, Cic. Quint. 30, 93; cf.: apparatus splendidissime expositus, Petr. 21.—2.Trop., brilliantly, splendidly, nobly: acta aetas honeste ac splendide,
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, Cic. Tusc. 3, 25, 61; cf. id. Sen. 18, 64: splendidius contra regem quam, etc., bellum gerere, Auct. B. Alex. 24, 2: ornate splendideque facere, Cic. Off. 1, 1, 4: dicta, id. Fin. 1, 2, 6: in parentem Splendide mendax, Hor. C. 3, 11, 35: splendidissime natus,