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cŏruscus , a, um, adj. corusco, II. (poet.).
I. In waving motion, waving, vibrating, tremulous: “silvae,Verg. A. 1, 164: “ilices,id. ib. 12, 701.—Humorously: “omnia corusca prae tremore fabulor,” i. e. trembling, Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 42.—
II. Flashing, gleaming, glittering: “fulgura,Lucr. 5, 296.—So of lightning: “ignis,Lucr. 6, 203; Hor. C. 1, 34, 6: “lumina,Lucr. 6, 283.—Also: vis fulminis, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 9, 21: “sol,Verg. G. 1, 234; cf.: “radii (solis),Ov. M. 1, 768: “lampades,id. ib. 12, 247: “viri ferro auroque,Stat. Th. 4, 9; cf. “in Greek constr.: cristis capita alta corusci,Verg. A. 9, 678. —
B. Transf., brilliant, ἐνθύμημα, Gell. 17, 20, 4.—Subst.: cŏruscum , i, n., lightning, Venant. 3, 4.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.247
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.768
    • Plautus, Rudens, 2.6
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.164
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.678
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.234
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.203
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.296
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.283
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.9
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 17.20.4
    • Statius, Thebias, 4
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