Affulgeo, affulges, affulsi, affulgêre. Sil. To shiue against: also to happen with gladnesse.Affulgêre per metaphoram.Liu.Sardiniæ recipiendæ repentina (pes affulsit.Liu.A sodayne hope ioyously hapned, that Sardinia might be recouered.Affulsit fortona.Liu.Fortune shewedhir selfe fauourably.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
af-fulgĕo (better adf-), ulsi, 2, v. n., to shine on a thing (poet., and in the Aug. and post-Aug. histt.). I.Lit.: Non Venus adfulsit, non illā Juppiter horā, Ov. Ib. 213: nitenti Adfulsit vultu ridens Venus, Sil. 7, 467: instar veris vultus tuus Adfulsit, Hor. C. 4, 5, 6.—II. Fig., to shine, dawn, appear: defensurum se urbem prima spes adfulsit, Liv. 27, 28; cf. id. 23, 32: mihi talis fortuna, id. 30, 30: lux civitati, id. 9, 10: Cretensibus nihil praesidii, Val. Max. 7, 6, 1ext.: occasio, Flor. 4, 9 al.