lūceō lūxī, -, ēre LVC-, to be light, be clear, shine, beam, glow, glitter: globus lunae, V.: faces, O.: (stella) luce lucebat alienā: luceat igne rogus, O.: Rara per occultos lucebat semita calles, glimmered, V.: taedā lucebis in illā, i. e. shall burn, Iu.: lucens ad imum Usque solum lympha, transparent, O.

—Impers, it is light, is day, dawns: nondum lucebat: simul atque luceret.

—Fig., to shine forth, be conspicuous, be apparent, be clear, be evident: imperi splendor illis gentibus lucem adferre coepit: mea studia, quae parum antea luxerunt: virtus lucet in tenebris.