I.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.
sub-lūcĕo , ēre, v. n.,