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nĭtor , ōris, m. niteo,
I.brightness, splendor, lustre, sheen.
B. Transf.
1. Sleekness, plumpness, good looks, beauty: “nitor corporis,Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 10: “urit me Glycerae nitor,Hor. C. 1, 19, 5: “Liparei nitor Hebri,id. ib. 3, 12, 6: “nullus totā nitor in cute,Juv. 9, 13.—
2. Neatness, elegance, brilliancy of external appearance: “si quem ... aliquid offendit, si purpurae genus, si amicorum catervae, si splendor, si nitor,Cic. Cael. 31, 77: “habitus,Juv. 3, 180: “oppidum praecipui nitoris,Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 85.—
3. In gen., color, Lucr. 2, 819: “ludis et externo tincta nitore caput,Prop. 2, 14, 26 (3, 11, 2).—
II. Trop., of speech, splendor, elegance, grace of style. —With gen.: “adhibendus erit in eis explicandis quidam orationis nitor,Cic. Or. 32, 115: “domesticus eloquii,Ov. P. 2, 2, 51: “nitor et cultus descriptionum,Tac. Or. 20: “translationum,Quint. 12, 10, 36.—Absol.: “sublimitas et magnificentia et nitor,Quint. 8, 3, 3: “eruditione ac nitore praestare,id. 10, 1, 98: “scripsit non sine cultu ac nitore,id. 10, 1, 124.—
B. Of character, dignity, excellence: “generis,Ov. P. 2, 9, 17; splendid liberality, Stat. S. 3, 3, 149.
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    • Cicero, For Marcus Caelius, 31.77
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.783
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.819
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.538
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.89
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 7.64
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, 3.3
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 1.124
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 1.98
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 10.36
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 2.6.4
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 2.2
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 2.9
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 3.4
    • Statius, Silvae, 3.3
    • Cicero, Orator, 32.115
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