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ἐπι-λάμπω ,
A.shine after or thereupon, ἠέλιος δ᾽ ἐπέλαμψε thereupon the sun shone forth, Il.17.650; of the moon, h.Merc.141, Plu.2.044d, etc.; “ὥς σφι ἡμέρη ἐπέλαμψε” Hdt.8.14, cf. 3.135; ἡμέρης ἐπιλαμψάσης when day had fully come, Id.7.13; also “ἔαρος ἐπιλάμψαντος” Id.8.130.
2.. shine upon (a place), abs., Hp.Aër.6, X.Cyn.8.1: c.dat., “φλόγες ἐ. ἄκροις τοῖς κέρασι” Plu.Fab.6; “ὁ ἥλιος ἐπέλαμπε τῷ ἔργῳ” Id.Arat.22, cf. Theo Sm.p.121H.: metaph., οὔριος . . ἐπίλαμψον ἐμῷ ἔρωτι, “Κύπρι” AP5.16 (Gaet.); τοῖς ἀπελπίζουσιν ἐ. bring them new light; OGI194.20 (Egypt, i B.C.), cf. ib.669.7 (ibid., i A.D.).
II.. trans., make to shine, μόχθοι νεότατ᾽ ἐπέλαμψαν μυρίοι (so L.Dind. for μυρίοις) Pi.Fr.172 (dub. l.); “τὸ ἀγαθὸν πᾶσιν ἐ. τοῖς νοητοῖς ἀλήθειαν” Plot.4.7.10:—Pass., shine upon, “λόφῳ -ελάμπετο πήληξ” A.R.2.920.
2.. illumine, κολώνας ib.164.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.135
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.13
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.130
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.14
    • Homer, Iliad, 17.650
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 141
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 8.1
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.164
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.920
    • Plutarch, Aratus, 22
    • Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, 6
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