A.“σέλαϊ” Il.17.739, contr. “σέλᾳ” Od.21.246; gen. “σέλαος” Plot.6.7.33, “σέλατος” Conon 49.2: pl. “σέλα_” Arist.Mu.395a31, al., Plu.Caes.63, AP9.289 (Bass.); gen. “σελάων” Arist.Mu.395b4 codd. (σελῶν ap.Stob.):—light, brightness, flame, “πυρός” Il.19.366, al.; καιομένοιο πυρός, π. αἰθομένοιο, ib.375, 8.563; ἐν σέλαϊ μεγάλῳ, without any word added, 17.739; δαΐδων ς. Od.18.354, Hes.Sc.275; “ς. λάβρον Ἡφαίστου” Pi.P. 3.39; “ἀπὸ . . λάμπε γυίων ς. ὧτε πυρός” B.16.104; Ἥφαιστος . . λαμπρὸν ἐκπέμπων ς., of a beacon fire, A.Ag.281, cf. 289; Ἡφαιστότευκτον, of a volcano, S.Ph.986; “καμίνου” A.Fr.281; ἐφέστιον ς. S.Tr.607; of the heavenly bodies, “ς. γένετ᾽ ἠΰτε μήνης” Il.19.374; ἁλίου ς. A.Eu.926 (lyr.), S.El.17, Ar.Av.1711; of daylight, καθαρὸν ἁμέρας ς. Pi.Fr.142.4, cf. S.Aj.856; πρὶν θεοῦ δῦναι ς. E.Supp.469; “τὸ ς. καὶ τὸ φῶς ταὐτόν” Pl.Cra.409b; lightning, flash of lightning, δαιόμενον ς. Il.8.76, cf. Democr.152; Διὸς ς. S.OC95; “ς. ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ” Hdt.3.28; meteor, Arist.Mu.395a31; torchlight, h.Cer.52, A.R.4.808, cf. AP9.46, etc., the flash of an angry eye, ἐξ ὀμμάτων ἤστραπτε γοργωπὸν ς. A.Pr.358, cf. E.Cyc.663 (so in Hom., ὄσσε λαμπέσθην ὡς εἴ τε πυρὸς ς. Il.19.366; ὄσσε δεινὸν ὑπὸ βλεφάρων ὡς εἰ ς. ἐξεφάανθεν ib.17): metaph. of love, Theoc.2.134, cf. AP12.93 (Rhian.).
σέλ-ας , αος, τό: Hom. uses (besides nom.) dat.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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