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φα^έθω , (φάω)
A.shine, only in part. φαέθων (exc. 3sg. φαέθει, Hsch.), radiant, epith. of the sun, Il.11.735, Od.5.479, 11.16, Hes.Th.760, S.El.824 (lyr.), E.El.464 (lyr.).
2. abs., the sun, AP5.273 (Paul. Sil.), 9.137 (Hadr.); πάννυχα καὶ φαέθοντα nights and days, S.Aj. 929 (lyr.).
b. of the moon, “φαέθουσα καὶ αὐγάζουσα” PMag.Par. 1.2558.
II. as pr. n.,
1. Φαέθων, ὁ, one of the light-bringing steeds of Eos, Od.23.246.
2. son of Eos and Cephalus, Hes. Th.987.
3. son of Helios, famous for his unlucky driving of the sun-chariot, E.Hipp.739 (lyr.), Arist.Mete.345a15; subject of play by E.
b. the Sun, Doroth. in Cat.Cod.Astr.2.82, Nonn.D. 5.81.
c. the constellation Auriga, ib.1.357, 38.424.
4. the planet Jupiter, Arist.Mu.392a24, Eudox.Ars 5.14, Cic.ND2.20.52.
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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