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ἐκλάμπ-ω ,
A.shine or beam forth, Hdt.6.82, A.Pr.1083 (anap.); “ὅπλα ὥστε κάτοπτρον ἐξέλαμπεν” X.Cyr.7.1.2, etc.; “ὀμμάτων ἐ. πόθος” APl. 4.182 (Leon.); “ὥσπερ ἀστραπήν” Hp.Epid.7.88; “πῦρ ἐκ λίθων ἐ.” Arist. HA516b11 : metaph., “δίκας δ᾽ ἐξέλαμψε θεῖον φάος” Trag.Adesp.500; “ὥσπερ ἐκ πυρείων ἐ.” Pl.R.435a; “ἐξ. ἡ δόξα” Plb.31.23.2 ; of persons, Ph.1.326, al.; burst forth violently, of a fever, Hp.VM16 ; of sound, to be clearly heard, [ἐκ τῆς κραυγῆς] “ἐξέλαμψε τὸ καλεῖν τὸν βασιλέα” Plb.15.31.1.
2. to be distinguished, “δι᾽ εὐφυΐαν” Plu.Cic.2; “τῶν ἄλλων” Lib.Or.62.37.
II. c. acc. cogn., flash forth, “πυρωπὸν γλῆνος ἐκλάμψαν φλόγα” A.Fr.300.4; σέλας dub.l.in E.Fr.330, cf. Lyc.1091 ; “πῦρ” App.Syr.56, cf. BiasFr.Lyr.: metaph., “νοῦς ἐ. αἰσθήσεις” Ph.1.72 ; “ἀπὸ τοῦ ἑνὸς ὁ θεὸς ἑαυτὸν ἐξέλαμψε” Iamb.Myst.8.2.
III. Astrol.,=“διαυγάζω” 111, PLond.1.132.95 (i/ii A.D.).
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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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 1083
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.82
    • Plato, Republic, 435a
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 7.1.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 15.31.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 31.23.2
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 16
    • Plutarch, Cicero, 2
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