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περι-λάμπω ,
A.shine around or brightly, Id.Cam. 17; “πρὸς τὴν σελήνην” Id.Arat.21, etc.:—Med., “περιλαμπομένας φύσεις ὑπερβάλλειν λαμπρότητι” D.S.3.12; “τῷ χρυσῷ” Luc.Ind.9.
II. c.acc., light up, πολεμίῳ πυρὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα π. Demad.39 ; illuminate, “τὰ κεκρυμμένα τῶν ἀδικημάτων ταῖς ἀκτῖσι” Ph.1.634; shine around, Plu.Cic. 35; “φῶς π. τινά” Act.Ap.26.13, cf. Ev.Luc.2.9:—Pass., to be illumined, φωτί, ὑπὸ τῆς φλογός, Plu.Per.39, Dio 46; “ὑπὸ τῶν ἀστέρων” Luc.Dom. 8.
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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    • New Testament, Acts, 26.13
    • New Testament, Luke, 2.9
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    • Plutarch, Pericles, 39
    • Plutarch, Camillus, 17
    • Plutarch, Cicero, 35
    • Lucian, De Domo, 8
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