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.). 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,
, 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).