Lucubratio, ônis, f. g. Colum. Cic.A studying by candel: a work made by candle and night studie.Lucubrationum fuligo bibenda. Quint. Ad lucubrationem conficere aliquid. Col. To make a thing by candle light and night studie.Per lucubrationem ferramenta acuere. Colu. To grinde hys tooles by candle.Lucubratoriam lecticulam Tranquillus appellat, in qua lucubrare solebat Augustus.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lūcūbrātĭo, ōnis, f. [lucubro], a working by lamp-light, night-work, nocturnal study, lucubration.I.Lit.: per hiemem lucubratione haec facito, Cato, R. R. 37: lucubrationes detraxi, Cic. Div. 2, 68, 142: ista sunt tota commenticia, vix digna lucubratione anicularum,
hardly worth the evening gossip of old women
, id. N. D. 1, 34, 94: cannabis lucubrationibus decorticata purgatur, Plin. 19, 9, 56, 174: est enim lucubratio, quoties ad eam integri ac refecti venimus, optimum secreti genus, Quint. 10, 3, 27: et vigilandae noctes, et fuligo lucubrationum bibenda, id. 11, 3, 23. —II.Transf., any thing done or composed at night, night-work, lucubration: perire lucubrationem meam nolui, i. e. epistolam noctu scriptam, Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 1.—As title of a work by Bibaculus, Plin. praef. 24.
