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λαμπρότης , ητος, ἡ,
A.brilliancy, splendour, “λ. καὶ τάξις τοῦ στρατεύματος” X.An.1.2.18; of a horse, Id.Eq.11.9; of arms, Plb.11.9.1, Arr.An.1.14.4.
2. clearness, distinctness, Plu.Phil.11.
II. metaph., brilliancy, splendour, Hdt.2.101; “ἡ παραυτίκα λ.” Th.2.64, cf. 7.69; “ἀπὸ οἵας λαμπρότητος . . ἐς οἵαν . . τελευτὴν ἀφῖκτο” Id.7.75, cf. 6.31: pl., distinctions, “τιμαὶ καὶ λ.” Id.4.62; ἔν τινος λαμπρότητι in distinction for a thing, Id.6.16; “λ. τῶν πράξεων” D.S.16.66, cf. Arr. An.2.7.7.
2. munificence, D.21.158.
3. brilliancy of style, Plu. 2.25b; λαμπρότητες τοῦ λόγου, Lat. lumina orationis, Philostr.VS 1.23.2.
4. λ. ψυχῆς magnanimity, Plb.32.8.1, D.S.4.40.
5. as a title, ἡ σὴ λ. your Serenity, Serene Highness, PGrenf.1.59 (v/vi A. D.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (18):
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 158
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 16.66
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.101
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.64
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.16
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.75
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.62
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.31
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.69
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.2.18
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 11.9
    • Polybius, Histories, 11.9.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 32.8.1
    • Plutarch, Philopoemen, 11
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 1.14.4
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 2.7.7
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 4.40
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 1.23.2
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