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col-lustro (conl- ), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I.to lighten on all sides, to illumine, brighten (rare but class.; most freq. in Cic.).
B. Transf.: collustrata in picturis, the brilliantly colored, bright (opp. opaca), Cic. Or. 11, 36.—
II. Trop., to consider a thing on all sides, to inspect, survey: omnia oculis, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 65: “omnia,Verg. A. 3, 651: “cuncta,Tac. A. 2, 45.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.651
    • Tacitus, Annales, 2.45
    • Cicero, De Republica, 6.17
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.36
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.43
    • Cicero, Orator, 11.36
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