clarus: praeclarus (renowned for eminent services to one’s country): illustria: perillustris (for rank and virtue): inclytus (famous: of places, but, in the poets, of persons also): celeber (much visited: not used of persons before Liv.): nobilis (of noble birth). ☞ Clarus has very often ablative of the thing, gloria, bello, pace. A very celebrated man, vir clarissimus, spectatissimus, amplissimus (Liv. has celeberrimi viri, 26, 21, 16). A very celebrated monument, celeberrimum monumentum (opposed to desertissimum sepulcrum). Very celebrated, illustri laude celebratus; claritate praeatans: for learning, nobilis et clarus ex doctrina. To be celebrated, gloria florere: esse in laude: to be very celebrated, gloria circumfluere; omnium sermone celebrari; in magno nomine et gloria esse; magna celebritate famae esse: as an orator, magnum in oratoribus nomen habere: he is celebrated every where, ejus nomen longe atque late vagatur: to become celebrated, nominis famam adipisci; gloriam consequi or assequi; in gloriam venire; in claritudinem pervenire; also crescere (Ruhnken, Ter., Heaut., Prol., 28: clarescere and inclarescere belong to the Silver Age). To become celebrated for anything, illustrari aliqua re; clarum fieri re or ex re. To render celebrated, celebrare, illustrare, nobilitare (this also of an event; e.g., a battle, which renders a place celebrated), aliquem or aliquid gloriae commendare; gloria afficere aliquem (of an action). To render himself celebrated, gloriam or famam sibi acquirere, comparare; claritudinem sibi parare: to wish or try to render himself celebrated, gloriam quaerere, sequi; famae studere, serrire, inservire. ☞ Famosus, in classical prose, = “infamous,” “notorious.”