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Transf., because, at the lustral sacrifice, the priest went around the person or object purified; hence, To go around, encircle: regem choreis, Verg. A. 10, 224.
To go round, wander over, traverse: Pythagoras et Aegyptum lustravit et Persarum Magos adiit, Cic. Fin. 5, 29, 87: latitudinem lustrans signiferi orbis, id. N. D. 2, 20, 53; so id. Univ. 9: et salis Ausonii lustrandum navibus aequor, Verg. A. 3, 385: pede barbaro Lustrata Rhodope, Hor. C. 3, 25, 11: lustrati montes, Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 129: nulla meis frustra lustrantur compita plantis, Prop. 3, 15, 3: lustravitque fuga mediam gladiator harenam, Juv. 2, 14, 4: spatium, id. 6, 582.
Military term, to review: exercitum lustravi apud Iconium, Cic. Att. 5, 20, 2; Hirt. B. G. 8, 52; cf.: inclusas animas superumque ad lumen ituras Lustrabat, Verg. A. 6, 681.
To review, survey, observe, examine (poet.): et totum lustrabat lumine corpus, Verg. A. 8, 153: respicio et quae sit me circum copia lustro, id. ib. 2, 564: alicujus vestigia, id. ib. 11, 763; Tac. A. 15, 26; Petr. Sat. 11; Sil. 15, 787.
Trop., to review, consider: omnia ratione animoque, Cic. Off. 1, 17, 57.
(Of the sun, moon, etc.) To illuminate, make bright: postera Phoebeā lustrabat lampade terras Aurora, Verg. A. 4, 6; 7, 148: sol, obliquo terras et caelum lumine lustrans, Lucr. 5, 693; 5, 79: mundi magnum templum Sol et luna suo lustrantes lumine, id. 5, 1437; 6, 737: Sol, qui terrarum flammis opera omnia lustras, Verg. A. 4, 607.