To glowe like a coale: to be white. Arrum & Candens, Opponuntur. Ouid. Candens color. Plin. White. Corpus candens. Virg. Ebur cander. Catul. Elephantus candens. Virg. Candentes equi. Claud. Lana candens. Catul. Marmor candens. Lucret. Taurus candens. Virg. Candere. Cic. To be glowing hotte. Aer candet. Ouid. Is bright or shining faire: or is hotte. Aestas candet. Lucan. Summer is hotte. Carbo candens. Cic. A burning coale. Chalybs candens. Sil. Cinis candet. Ouid. Fauilla candens. Virg. A burning sparke. Ferrum candens. Lucret. Lamina candens. Ouid. Glowing red. Lilia candentia. Claud. Faire white. Lumen Solis caudens. Lucret. Phœbus candentior. Val. Flac. The hotte funne. Pruioæ candentes. Claud. Hoare frosies. Vestis tincta cocco candet. Horat. Glistreth. Felle candent viscera. Claud. Shineth.

I. Lit.

A. 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. —

B. 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.—

2. 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.—

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

A. Verb finit.: siccis aër fervoribus ustus Canduit, Ov. M. 1, 120; Col. 1, 4, 9.—

B. 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). —

2. 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).