Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἐπανθ-έω

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II. metaph., of any thing that forms on the surface, ἅλμην ἐπανθέουσαν [τοῖι ὄρεσι] Hdt.2.12, cf. Str.11.13.2; “χνοῦς ὥσπερ μήλοισιν ἐπήνθει” Ar.Nu.978; “τὸ τρυφερὸν . . ἐπὶ τοῖς μήλοις ἐπανθεῖ” Id.Ec.903; τὴν ἐπανθοῦσαν τρίχα ib.13; also of hair turning grey, “κύκνου . . πολιώτεραι δὴ αἵδ᾽ ἐπανθοῦσιν τρίχες” Id.V.1065, cf. X.Cyn.4.8.

2. generally, to be upon the surface, “τρηχύτης ἐπήνθει” Hp.Epid.7.43; “ἐμοὶ . . ἐπάνθεεν ἁδύ τι κάλλος” Theoc.20.21; “ἐπὶ σμικρῷ ἰκτέρῳ ἡ χροιὴ μέζων ἐπανθέει” Aret.SD1.15.

b. abs., show itself, appear plainly, “τοὐπιχώριον ἐπανθεῖ” Ar.Nu.1174; “ὅπερ . . παισὶ καὶ θηρίοις . . σύμφυτον ἐπανθεῖ” Pl. Lg.710a; “τῷΙσοκράτει πολλαὶ χάριτες ἐπήνθουν” D.H.Comp.19; “πᾶσιν ἐπανθεῖ . . ἡ χάρις” Luc.Im.9, cf. Hist.Conscr.55; “τῷ προσώπῳ τὸ θηριῶδες ἐ.” Callistr. Stat.12; τὰ -οῦντα τῇ αἰσθήσει τῶν ζῴων θελκτήρια ib.7.

III. to be bright, “πτερίσκοις πορφυροῖς ἐπανθούντων” Babr. 118.5.

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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