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lūcū̆brātĭo, ōnis, f. [lucubro], a working by lamp-light, night-work, nocturnal study, lucubration.

  1. I. Lit.: per hiemem lucubratione haec facito, Cato, R. R. 37: lucubrationes detraxi, Cic. Div. 2, 68, 142: ista sunt tota commenticia, vix digna lucubratione anicularum, hardly worth the evening gossip of old women, id. N. D. 1, 34, 94: cannabis lucubrationibus decorticata purgatur, Plin. 19, 9, 56, § 174: est enim lucubratio, quoties ad eam integri ac refecti venimus, optimum secreti genus, Quint. 10, 3, 27: et vigilandae noctes, et fuligo lucubrationum bibenda, id. 11, 3, 23.
  2. II. Transf., any thing done or composed at night, night-work, lucubration: perire lucubrationem meam nolui, i. e. epistolam noctu scriptam, Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 1.
    As title of a work by Bibaculus, Plin. praef. § 24.

lūcū̆brātĭuncŭla, ae, f. dim. [lucubratio], a working by night, sitting up at night (post-Aug.).

  1. I. Lit., Marc. Aur. ap. Front. ad Ep. M. Caes. 1, 3 Mai.
  2. II. Transf., night-work, lucubration, Gell. N. A. praef. § 14.

* lūcū̆brātōrĭus, a, um, adj. [lucubro], of or belonging to a night-student: lecticula, Suet. Aug. 78.

lūcū̆bro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [lux], to work by lamp-light, work at night.

  1. I. Neutr.: (Lucretiam) deditam lanae inter lucubrantes ancillas inveniunt, Liv. 1, 57, 9: sin lucubrandum est, non post cibum id facere, sed post concoctionem, Cels. 1, 2; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 8.
  2. II. Act., to make by lamp-light, to compose at night: parvum opusculum lucubratum his jam contractioribus noctibus, Cic. Par. prooem. § 5: nox lucubrata, spent in work, Mart. 4, 90, 9: viam, to travel by night, App. M. 6, p. 186.

‡ lūcŭbrum vocatum, quod luceat in umbra. Est enim modicus ignis, qui solet ex tenui stuppa ceraque formari, Isid. Orig. 20, 10, 8.