Eniteo, énites, pe. cor. enítui, enitêre. Tibul. To shine: to be gorgeous & cleane: to appeare faire and bright: to shew itself euidently: to be famous, notable, or greatly renowmed.Deæ enituerunt. Tibul. Acumen quoddam singulare eniter in aliquo. Ci. Euidētly appeareth.Decus eniter ore.Virg.Fruges enitent.Cic.Opus enitere.Cic.To appeare faire.Crassi magis enitebat oratio. C. Crassus stile was more beutiful and elequent. Enitere Cic.To be famous or renowmed.In eo bello & virtus & fortuna enituit Tullij.In that warre both the valiantnes and good fortune of Tullius euidētlye shewed it selfe, or was notable.Enitent Athenæ cunctis gentibus.Cicer.The Athenians be famous or renowmed through al nations.Enitere & Obsolescere opposita.Cic.
Enitesco, enitescis, IdÊ, Qui. Noster hic culrus clarius enitescet.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-nĭtĕo, tŭi, 2, v. n., to shine forth, shine out, gleam, brighten (class.). I.Lit.: fruges enitent, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 5; cf.: myrtus floridis ramulis, Cat. 61, 21: campus, Verg. G. 2, 211: caelum, i. e.
to become fine again
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clear up
, Gell. 19, 1, 7: tantum egregio decus enitet ore, Verg. A. 4, 150.— II.Trop., to shine forth, to be eminent, distinguished (a favorite expression of Cicero): quod in eis orationibus, quae Philippicae nominantur, enituerat Demosthenes, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 3; cf. id. Inv. 2, 2, 5; id. de Or. 2, 28 fin.; id. Fl. 7, 17: virtus in bello, id. Mur. 14 fin.; cf. Liv. 1, 42; 4, 3: oratio Crassi, Cic. Brut. 59, 215; Liv. 22, 27.
ē-nĭtesco, -nitŭi, 3, v. inch. n., to shine forth, shine out, become bright (freq. in the post-Aug. per.). I.Lit.: ut (oculi) in hilaritate enitescant, Quint. 11, 3, 75.—Poet.: enitescis pulchrior multo (Barine), Hor. C. 2, 8, 6.—II.Trop., to shine forth, become distinguished: sibi novum bellum exoptabat, ubi virtus enitescere posset, Sall. C. 54, 4: gloria, Auct. Her. 4, 44, 57; cf. Gell. 17, 21, 33: facundia, Quint. 10, 5, 14; cf. Tac. Or. 20: utque studiis honestis et eloquentiae gloria enitesceret, id. A. 12, 58: plebs togā (i. e. pacis artibus), id. ib. 11, 7.