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γα^νάω , (γάνος)
A.glitter, gleam, of metals; Hom. always in Ep. part., “θώρηκες λαμπρὸν γανόωντες” Il.13.265; “κόρυθες λαμπρὸν γανόωσαι” 19.359: hence, look fresh and smiling, πρασιαὶ . . ἐπηετανὸν γανόωσαι, of garden-beds, Od.7.128; “νάρκισσον . . γανόωντα” h.Cer.10; “χαλκῷ γανάοντας ἐφήβους” Mus.Belg.16.70 (Attica, ii A. D.); ὀφθαλμοὶ γανόωντες, in phthisis, Aret.SD1.8.
2. exull, rejoice, Opp.H.1.659.
II. trans., make bright, Arat.190; cf. γανάσσαι: σμῆξαι, ἡδῦναι, Hsch.
2. γανάοντες glorifying, Herm. for γανάεντες, A. Supp.1019 (lyr.).
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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