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                    "description": "(adj.adv.) : splendĭdus, a, um, adj.splendeo\n* Bright, shining, glittering, brilliant, etc. (class.; syn.: nitidus, lucidus, coruscus).\n* Lit.\n* In gen.: o magna templa caelitum, commixta stellis splendidis, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 6 Müll. (Trag. v. 227 Vahl.); so, signa caeli,Lucr. 4, 444: lumina solis,id. 2, 108: caelum cum aequaliter totum erit splendidum,Plin. 18, 35, 80, § 351; cf. comp.: quanto splendidior quam cetera sidera fulget Lucifer,Ov. M. 2, 722: sol splendidior,Tib. 4, 1, 123.—Sup.: splendidissimus candor,Cic. Rep. 6, 16, 16: color (with flam neus),Lucr. 6, 208: ostro crinis,Ov. M. 8, 8: venabula. id. ib. 8, 419: fons splendidio vitro,Hor. C. 3, 13, 1; cf.: Galatea Splendidior  vitro, Ov. M. 13, 791: umor sudoris,Lucr. 6, 1187: bilis, bright yellow, χολὴ ξανθή, Hor. S. 2, 3, 141 (cf.: vitrea bilis,Pers. 3, 8).\n* Trop.\n* In gen., brilliant, illustrious, distinguished, noble (cf.: egregius, amplus): C. Plotius, eques Romanus splendidus,Cic. Fin. 2, 18, 58; cf.: vir splendidissimus atque ornatissimus civitatis suae,id. Fl. 20, 48: homo propter virtutem splendidus,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 38; Plin. Ep. 4, 4, 2: splendidissima ingenia,Cic. Off. 1, 8, 26; 1, 18, 61: causa splendidior,id. Rosc. Am. 49, 142; cf.: splendida facta,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 237: ratio dicendi,Cic. Brut. 75, 261; so, splendida et grandis oratio,id. ib. 79, 273; cf.: splendidius et magnificentius (genus dicendi),id. ib. 55, 201; cf.: figurarum commentis splendida loca attentare, brilliant passages of a speech, Amm. 29, 2, 8: splendidis nominibus illuminatus est versus,Cic. Or. 49, 163: splendidioribus verbis uti,id. Brut. 58: vox suavis et splendida,clear,id. ib. 55, 203: cum de te splendida Minos Fecerit arbitria,Hor. C. 4, 7, 21.\n* In partic. (with the accessory idea of mere appearance, opp. to what is real or actual), showy, fine, specious, = speciosus: non tam solido quam splendido nomine,Cic. Fin. 1, 18, 61: praetendens culpae splendida verba tuae,Ov. R. Am. 240.\n* Clear, distinct: vox,Cic. Brut. 55, 203.—Hence, adv.: splendĭdē, brightly, brilliantly.\n* Lit.: ornare magnifice splendideque convivium,Cic. Quint. 30, 93; cf.: apparatus splendidissime expositus,Petr. 21.\n* Trop., brilliantly, splendidly, nobly: acta aetas honeste ac splendide,honorably, with distinction,Cic. Tusc. 3, 25, 61; cf. id. Sen. 18, 64: splendidius contra regem quam, etc., bellum gerere, Auct. B. Alex. 24, 2: ornate splendideque facere,Cic. Off. 1, 1, 4: dicta,id. Fin. 1, 2, 6: in parentem Splendide mendax,Hor. C. 3, 11, 35: splendidissime natus,of very high birth,Sen. Ep. 47, 8; cf. Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 2.\n* Clearly, intelligibly: loqui,Cic. de Or. 2, 16, 68.\n* Ostentatiously: invitare,Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; cf.: parum se splendide gerere,with too little show, meanly,Nep. Att. 14, 2."
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