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αἴγλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἴγλη

Structure: αἰγλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the light of the sun, radiance, daylight
  2. any dazzling light, lustre, gleam

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ἡσίοδοσ δέ φησιν καὶ Ἵππην καὶ Αἴγλην, δι’ ἣν καὶ τοὺσ πρὸσ Ἀριάδνην ὁρ́κουσ παρέβη, ὥσ φησι Κέρκωψ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 4 2:3)
  • τετραπηχυαῖον μὲν γὰρ εἶχε τὸ σῶμα, πυρὸσ δ’ ἐξ ὀμμάτων ἔλαμπεν αἴγλην. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 4 9:9)
  • πυκνὰ δ’ ἀνὰ κληῖδασ ἑῶυ λύεσκε θυράων, αἴγλην σκεπτομένη· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 14:12)
  • ὡσ δὲ σεληναίην διχομήνιδα παρθένοσ αἴγλην ὑψόθεν ἐξανέχουσαν ὑπωροφίου θαλάμοιο λεπταλέῳ ἑανῷ ὑποΐσχεται· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 3:23)
  • πᾶσα γὰρ Ηἐλίου γενεὴ ἀρίδηλοσ ἰδέσθαι ἠε͂ν, ἐπεὶ βλεφάρων ἀποτηλόθι μαρμαρυγῇσιν οἱο͂́ν τέ χρυσέην ἀντώπιον ἱέσαν αἴγλην. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 12:20)

Synonyms

  1. the light of the sun

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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