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τηλαυγ-ής , ές, (τῆλε, αὐγή)
A.far-shining, far-beaming, πρόσωπον, of the sun, h.Hom.31.13; εἵματα, of the moon, ib.32.8; φάος, φέγγος, Pi.P.3.75 (Comp.), N.3.64; ἀκτίς, ἀκτίνων σέλας, Ar.Av.1092 (lyr.), 1711; “στέφανοι” Pi.P.2.6; πρόσωπον θέμεν τ. to make it beam from afar, Id.O.6.4: metaph., τ. νοῦς luminous meaning, D.H.Th. 30; “σαφεῖς καὶ τ. αἰτίαι” Jul.Or.5.174d; “λέξεις ἐπὶ τὸ -έστερον ἀχθεῖσαι” Erot.Prooem.
II. of distant objects, far-seen, conspicuous, “σκοπιή” Thgn.550; “κορυφά” Pi.Pae.7.12; “φᾶρος” B.16.5; “ὄχθος” S.Tr. 524 (lyr.); of leprosy, LXX Le.13.4, al.
III. far-seeing, αἴσθησις, ψυχή, Hp.Ep.17,22 (Comp.). Adv. -γῶς, τηλαυγέστερον ὁρᾶν to see more clearly, D.S.1.50, cf. Str.17.1.30, Ph.1.540, Ev.Marc.8.25.--Poet. word, used in late Prose: δηλαυγῶς seems to be a different word.
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 (11):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1711
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1092
    • Bacchylides, Dithyrambs, 16.5
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 31 to Helios, 13
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 32 to Selene, 8
    • New Testament, Mark, 8.25
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 524
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.1.30
    • Old Testament, Leviticus, 13.4
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.50
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide, 30
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