Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.shining, radiant, “πῦρ” Il.5.215; “σελήνη” 8.555; “Ἠώς” Od.4.188; “ὄσσε” Il.13.3; “χαλκός” 12.151; “κασσίτερος” 23.561; ὀρείχαλκος, χρυσός, Hes.Sc.122,142; “κρητήρ” Il.3.247, al.; “δόρυ” 4.496; ἀσπίς, σάκος, 3.357, 8.272; “πήληξ” 13.805; “θώρηξ φαεινότερος πυρὸς αὐγῆς” 18.610; “ὅπλα” E.Andr.1146; “μάστιξ” Il.10.500; “θύραι” Od.6.19; of bright colours, “ζωστὴρ φοίνικι φαεινός” Il.6.219, cf. 15.538; φ. πεπλος, τάπης, 5.315, 10.156; “φ. πλόκαμοι” bright, glossy, 14.176; εἶδος, of the stars, Sapph.3.2; “ἄστρον” Pi.O.1.6, cf. E.Cyc.353, al.; ἔρεβος ὦ φαεννότατον ὡς ἐμοί darkness bright as the day to me, S.Aj.395 (lyr.); of the Dawn, AP5.227 (Paul. Sil.).

2. of the voice, clear, distinct, far-sounding, Pi.P.4.283.

3. splendid, brilliant, ἀρεταί, θυσίαι, Id.N.7.51, I.5(4).30; “κρηπὶς ἐλευθερίας” Id.Fr.77.—Very rare in Prose, ἐν τοῖς φαεινοῖς χρόνοις, of clear nights, Aen.Tact.25.2; Φάεννος is pr. n. at Rhodes, Chron.Lind. B.34.