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φωστήρ , ῆρος, ὁ,
A.that which gives light, οἱ φ. the lights of heaven, stars, LXXGe.14, al., Simp. in Epict.p.72 D.; οἱ δύο φ., i.e. sun and moon, ibid., cf. Procl.Hyp.4.72, etc.; “φαίνεσθε ὡς φωστῆρες ἐν κόσμῳ” Ep.Phil.2.15.
2. splendour, radiance, “ὁ φ. αὐτῆς ὅμοιος λίθῳ τιμιωτάτῳ” Apoc.21.11.
3. metaph., of a king, “τῷ φ. τῷ ἡμετέρῳ” Them.Or.16.204c.
4. of the eyes, Vett.Val.110.22.
II. opening for light, door or window, Hsch.
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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