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A. ray, beam : Hom.
only dat. pl., “ἀκτῖσιν”
Od.5.479,
19.441.
“ἀκτίνεσσιν”
11.16,
Il.10.547;
[the Sun's rays:]~“Ἠελίοιο ἀκτῖνες”
Mimn.11.6, cf. Emp.84,
Ar.Av.1009, Arist.Mete. 374b4,
etc.;
of lightning,
“ἀκτῖνες
στεροπᾶς ἀπορηγνύμεναι”
Pi.P. 4.198;
“ὦ
Διὸς
ἀκτίς,
παῖσον”
S.Tr.10<*>6; “πυρός” Sopat.13,
Pl.Ti.78d; of the eyes, ἀκτῖνας
προσώπου, Pi.Fr.123,
cf. Ar.V.1032; visual rays,
Hipparch. ap. Placit.4.13.9.
2. metaph.,
brightness, splendour, glory, ἀ.
ἀγώνων,
καλῶν
ἐργμάτων,
Pi.P.11.48,
I.4(3).42; ἀκτῖνες
ὄλβου splendid fortunes,
Id.P.4.255.
3.
ray shot from the left by planet to planet (opp. ὄψις, q.v.), Heph.Astr. 1.16,
Porph.Intr.p.189; τὴν
ἀ.
ἐπιφέρων Vett. Val. 136.19,
cf. Ptol. Tetr.126.
II.
spoke of a wheel, AP9.418 (Antip.).
[See: 'radius,' 'radix,' |'root'|]