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subluceo

subluceo, to shine a little, gleam faintly, glimmer

sub-lūcĕo, ēre, v. n.,
  • to shine a little, to gleam faintly, to glimmer (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): aries sublucet corpore totus, Cic. Arat. 289: crepuscula sublucent, Ov. Am. 1, 5, 5: si fragmenta (picis), subluceant, Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 127: (liquor) nigrantis rosae colore sublucens, id. 9, 36, 60, § 126: violae sublucet purpura nigrae, Verg. G. 4, 275; cf.: candida nec mixto sublucent ora rubore, Ov. H. 21, 217.

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