Perluceo, perlúces, pen. prod. perluxi, perlucêre. Pli. To shine bright: to shine through. Vide PERLVCEO. Littora natiuis perlucent picta lapillis. Propert. Maximè quasi perlucet exijs quas commemoraui virtutibus. Cice. It most shinech and sheweth the beautie of it in those vertues which, &c.Molles & perlucens oratio.Cic.Commissura perlucer. Quint. A man maye see thorough the ioint.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
perlūcĕo (pell-), xi, 2, v. n. [per-luceo], to shine through, shine forth, be visible; to be seen through, to be transparent, pellucid (class.). I.Lit.: ita is pellucet, quasi laterna Punica, Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 29: tenuis ac perlucens aether, Cic. N. D. 2, 21, 54: amethysti perlucent omnes violaceo colore, Plin. 37, 9, 40, 122: perlucens amictus, Ov. M. 4, 313: Cretice, pelluces, i. e.
you wear a transparent Cretan garment
, Juv. 2, 78: perlucens toga, Sen. Ep. 114; Plin. 9, 15, 20, 50: perlucens avena, i. e.
with many holes
, Tib. 3, 4, 71: perlucens ruina, Juv. 11, 13: pellucet omnis regia (because the walls are fallen down), Sen. Her. Fur. 1001.—II.Trop., to shine through or forth, to appear; to be transparent, clear, intelligible: illud ipsum quod honestum decorumque dicimus quasi perlucet ex eis, quas commemoravi, virtutibus, Cic. Off. 2, 9, 32: pellucens oratio, id. Brut. 79, 274: mores dicentis ex oratione pelluceant, Quint. 6, 2, 13: perlucet omne regiae vitium domus,