verb
prō-mĭco
Meaning
- to gleam forth
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
ērumpō, appāreō (lūx)prōmicō -āre — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 8
prō-mĭco, āre, v. n. and a.
I.
I. Neutr., to gleam forth; transf., to spring forth, start forth (post-class.):
promicant molles plumulae, i. e. grow out, App. M. 3, p. 138, 30: rosae, id. ib. 10, p. 253, 9: lacrimae, burst or gush forth, id. ib. 3, p. 133, 40.—II. Act., to throw out, deliver with vehemence: orationem, Naev. ap. Non. 65, 6 (promicare extendere et porro jacere, Non.).