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

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A.apparition, phantom, Hdt.6.69, 117, A.Ag.415 (lyr.), etc.; φ. ἀνθρώπου spectral appearance of a man, Hdt. 4.15; “φ. γυναικός” Id.8.84, cf. Pl.Smp.179d; “φ. νερτέρων” E.Alc. 1127; vision in a dream, “ὀνείρων φάσματα” A.Ag.274, cf. S.El.644, etc.; φ. νυκτός ib.501 (lyr.); “νύχια φ.” E.IT1263 (lyr.).

2. appearance, phenomenon, Pl.Tht.155a; “ἀνατολῆς φ. καὶ δύσεως” Epicur.Nat.11.8 (pl.), al.: so, of strange phenomena in the heavens, Arist.Mete. 338b23, 342a35; of images apprehended by sense, Diog.Oen.Fr. 7.

3. of shows or mysteries, as images or types of realities, “εὐδαίμονα φ. μυούμενοι” Pl.Phdr.250c.

4. sign from heaven, portent, omen, Hdt.3.10, 4.79, 7.37,38, 8.37, S.El.1466, Pl.Plt.268e, etc.; “φ. Κρονίδα” Pi.O.8.43, cf. A.Ag.145 (pl., lyr.); Παλλάδα . . εὔσημον φ. ναυβάταις Eur.IA252 (lyr.).

5. monster, prodigy, periphr., φάσμα ταύρου, ὕδρας, a monster of a bull, of a hydra, S.Tr. 509 (lyr.), 837 codd. (lyr.); of the Sphinx, Epigr.Gr.1016.3.

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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- Sophocles, Trachiniae, 509
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