(verb) : candeo, ui, 2, Sanscr candami, to be light; candra, the moon; connected with caneo as ardeo with areo
* To be brilliant, glittering, to shine, glitter, glisten (cf. candidus and albus; mostly poet.).
* Lit.
* Verb finit.: candet ebur soliis collucent pocula mensae,Cat. 64, 45: ubi canderet vestis,Hor. S. 2, 6, 103: stellarum turba crasso lumine candet,Manil. 1, 753.
* Transf., to glow with heat, be glowing hot (sometimes also in prose).
* Esp., = albus, white: ut candens videatur et album,Lucr. 2, 771: lana,Cat. 64, 318: lacerti,Tib. 1, 8, 33: umeri,Hor. C. 1, 2, 31: vacca,Verg. A. 4, 61: taurus,id. ib. 5, 236: cygnus candenti corpore,id. ib. 9, 563: candenti elephanto,i. e. ivory,id. ib. 6, 895: saxa,Hor. S. 1, 5, 26: lilia,Ov. M. 12, 411: candida de nigris et de candentibus atra facere,id. ib. 11, 315 al.
* Verb finit.: siccis aër fervoribus ustus Canduit,Ov. M. 1, 120; Col. 1, 4, 9.
* Part. and P. a.: ut calidis candens ferrum e fornacibus olim Stridit,as the glowing iron taken from the hot furnace hisses,Lucr. 6, 148; imitated by Ov. M. 9, 170: candenti ferro, Varr. R. R. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 100 P.: Dionysius candente carbone sibi adurebat capillum,Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25: candentes laminae,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 63, § 163 (al. ardentes); Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 36: aqua candens,Col. 6, 5, 2 (while Veg. 1, 17, 14, calens aqua).
* Trop., glowing with passion, excited (very rare): cum viscera felle canduerint,Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 226: numquam Stilicho sic canduit ora,id. Laud. Stil. 2, 82 (both of these examples are by some referred to candesco).

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