publicity Copy link Outline 1. cĕlebrĭtas (character of a place which is much frequented or thronged; or the crowd itself)2. meton. lux, lūcis, f. • publicity: 1. cĕlebrĭtas (character of a place which is much frequented or thronged; or the crowd itself): I hate p., I shun my fellow-men, odi celebritatem, fugio homines, Cic. Att. 3, 7: the nearness and p. of the place removes suspicion, propinquitas et c. loci tollit suspicionem, id. Scaur. fr. (Nizol.): to court p., in c. versari, Nep. (R. and A.). 2. meton. lux, lūcis, f.: to unfold secret matters and bring them into full p., res occultas aperire et in lucem proferre, Cic. Ac. 2, 19, 62: in the full p. (day-light) of Asia, in luce Asiae, id. Manil. 3, 7. (Or expr. by adj., apertus, propatulus, etc.: he courts p., *id agit ut ipse suaque omnia quam maxime in aperto [in propatulo] sint; to give p. to an occurrence, *aliquid quam plurimis notum facere: v. public, II.; to publish.)