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                    "description": "lux (noun M.m.f) : (adverb. abl. luce, luci, and lucu, and in these old forms also used as ;\n* V.infra; in Plaut. lux is usually ; Brix ad Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 11), luceo, light.\n* Lit.\n* In gen., the light of the sun and other heavenly bodies: cum id solis luce videatur clarius,Cic. Div. 1, 3, 6; id. Tusc. 1, 37, 90; id. Cat. 1, 3; id. Cael. 9: per umbras Stella facem ducens multā cum luce cucurrit,Verg. A. 2, 694: a lucifero donec lux occidat, till sunset, Juv, 13, 158. —The light, splendor, brightness of shining bodies: viridi cum luce zmaragdi,Lucr. 4, 1126: luce coruscus ahenā,Verg. A. 2, 470: lucem non fundentes gemmae,Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 94: ferri,Stat. Th. 8, 124.\n* Trop.\n* Transf.\n* The heavenly bodies: illae, quae fulgent luces,Cic. Arat. 96.\n* A day: centesima lux est ab interitu P. Clodii,Cic. Mil. 35, 98: longiore luce ad id certamen nobis opus est,Liv. 3, 2: anxia nocte, anxia luce gemit,Ov. M. 2, 806: crastina,Verg. A. 10, 244: natali die mihi dulcior haec lux,Juv. 12, 1: septima quaeque lux,id. 14, 105; cf.: natura volvente vices et lucis et anni,id. 13, 88. —Hence, poet.: lux aestiva,summer,Verg. G. 4, 52: lux brumalis,winter,Ov. Tr. 1, 11, 39.\n* Life: qui ab Orco mortuom me reducem in lucem feceris,Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 12: corpora luce carentum,i. e. of the dead,Verg. G. 4, 255; Sil. 13, 473; cf.: simul atque editi in lucem sumus,Cic. Tusc. 3, 1, 2.\n* An eye, the eyesight: effossae squalent vestigia lucis,Stat. Th. 11, 585: damnum lucis ademptae,Ov. M. 14, 197.\n* A light, of an eminent man to whom all eyes turn: Luce nihil gestum, nihil est Diomede remoto,Ov. M. 13, 100.—Of a beloved person: o lux salve candida,Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 34.\n* The sight of all men, the public view, the public, the world: nec vero ille in luce modo, atque in oculis civium magnus sed intus domique praestantior,Cic. Sen. 4, 12: Isocrates forensi luce caruit, id. Brut. 8, 32: familiam abjectam et obscu ram e tenebris in lucem vocare,id. Deiot. 11, 30: res occultas aperire in lucemque proferre,id. Ac. 2, 19, 62.\n* Light, encouragement, help, succor: lux quaedam videbatur oblata, non modo regno, sed etiam regni timore sublato,Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 40: civibus lucem ingenii et consilii porrigere,id. de Or. 1, 40, 184; cf.: lucem adferre rei publicae,id. Manil. 12, 33.\n* A light, an ornament: hanc urbem, lucem orbis terrarum,Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 11: genus sine luce,undistinguished, obscure,Sil. 8, 248.\n* Light, illustration, elucidation: historia testis temporum, lux veritatis,Cic. de Or. 2, 9, 36.\n* That which enlightens, the source of illumination: ratio quasi quaedam lux lumenque vitae. Cic. Ac. 2, 8, 26; cf.: ego sum lux mundi,Vulg. John, 8, 12; id. ib. 12, 26."
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