LIGHTNING Copy link • LIGHTNINGfulgur (ἀστραπή, sheet-lightning; for which we sometimes find fulgores, but never the sing., fulgor. Fulgur must be distinguished from fulgetrum or fulgetra = repeated flashes of lightning): fulmen (κεραυνός, forked lightning; a thunder-bolt; for which we find also fulminis jactus or ictus; hence, also, figuratively, i. q., destructive power; e.g., fortunae fulmen): to hurl or cast forth lightning, fulmen emittere, jacere: to be struck with lightning, fulmine ici or percuti; de caelo tangi or percuti; e caelo ici: struck with lightning, fulmine ictus, etc., fulminatus (also, figuratively, as if struck by lightning, Petronius, 80, 7): to be set on fire by lightning, deflagrare ictu fulminis: to be killed by lightning, fulmine exanimari: the lightning struck in the towers, turres fulmine percussae sunt: the lightning touched his litter, lecticam ejus fulgor praestrinxit: concerning lightning, fulguralis (e.g., books, etc.): belonging to lightning, fulmineus (poetically): as quick as lightning, celerrime; cum maxima celeritate. FIG., of oratory, verborum fulmina; oratio fulgurans ac tonans (after Quint., 2, 16, 19).