splendor (noun M) : splendeo
* Sheen, brightness, brilliance, lustre, splendor.
* Lit.
* In gen. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: fulgor, nitor): splendor acer adurit saepe oculos,Lucr. 4, 304: splendor clipeo clarior, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 1: caelum splendore plenum,id. Merc. 5, 2, 39: flammae,Ov. F. 5, 366: auri (with nitor gemmae),Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63: argenti,Hor. S. 1, 4, 28: jussine in splendorem dare bullas has foribus nostris?to be polished,Plaut. As. 2, 4, 20; cf. id. Aul. 4, 1, 16: clarus vestis purpureaï,Lucr. 2, 52; cf.: magnificus Babylonicorum,id. 4, 1029: aquaï,clearness,id. 4, 211: aquarum,Front. Aquaed. 89: minii,Plin. 33, 7, 40, § 121: lapidis phengitae,Suet. Dom. 14 et saep.—Plur.: nitores et splendores auri,Gell. 2, 6, 4: tremuli splendores, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olyb. 123.
* Trop., lustre, splendor, honor, dignity, excellence, etc. (so most freq. in Cic.): honesti homines et summo splendore praediti,Cic. Clu. 69, 198: summorum hominum splendor,id. de Or. 1, 45, 200: senator populi Romani, splendor ordinis, id. Caecin. 10, 28: equester,id. Rosc. Am. 48, 140; cf. id. Fam. 1, 3, 1; 1, 12, 27: imperii,id. Imp. Pomp. 14, 41: animi et vitae,id. Rep. 2, 42, 69: vitae,Liv. 3, 35, 1: dignitatis,Cic. Sull. 1: M. Catonis splendorem maculare,id. Sest. 28, 60: harum rerum splendor omnis et amplitudo,id. Off. 1, 20, 67: splendore nominis capti,id. Fin. 1, 13, 42: verborum Graecorum,id. Or. 49, 164; cf. id. ib. 31, 110; Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 2; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 111: actio ejus habebat in voce magnum splendorem,clearness,Cic. Brut. 68, 239; so, vocis,id. ib. 71, 250; Plin. 20, 6, 21, § 47.