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λευκαίνω , late aor. 1 inf. λευκᾶναι (v. infr.): pf. Pass.
A.“λελεύκασμαι” Diph.Siph. ap. Ath.2.54b, Orib.Fr.102:—make white, “λεύκαινον ὕδωρ ξεστῇς ἐλάτῃσιν” Od.12.172; “ἅλα ῥοθίοισι λ.” E.Cyc.17; “ἐς γένυν ἕρπει λευκαίνων ὁ χρόνος” Theoc.14.70; plaster with whitening, “λευκᾶναι τὰ λευκώματα” Ephes.3p.148:—Pass., to be or become white, Arist.GA 730a6, Sopat.8, A.R.1.545, Diph.Siph.l.c.; to be clarified, of oil, Orib.l.c.
2. cause to appear white, of the effect of dawn on lamplight, E.IA157 (anap.).
II. Pass., have a sensation of whiteness, S.E.M.7.191, al.
III. intr., grow white, E.Hyps.Fr.34(60) i13, Arist.Pr.890a9, LXXLe.13.19; ἀφροῖο with foam, Nic.Al.170.
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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    • Euripides, Cyclops, 17
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 157
    • Homer, Odyssey, 12.172
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.545
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