egyptdict_p1_aktis


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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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ἀκτίς (nom. ἀκτίν Hdn.Gr.2.511), [ι_] ῖνος, [aktis, aktin, inos, e]
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A. ray, beam : Hom. only dat. pl., “ἀκτῖσινOd.5.479, 19.441. “ἀκτίνεσσιν11.16, Il.10.547; [the Sun's rays:]~Ἠελίοιο ἀκτῖνεςMimn.11.6, cf. Emp.84, Ar.Av.1009, Arist.Mete. 374b4, etc.; of lightning, “ἀκτῖνες στεροπᾶς ἀπορηγνύμεναιPi.P. 4.198; “ Διὸς ἀκτίς, παῖσονS.Tr.10<*>6; “πυρόςSopat.13, Pl.Ti.78d; of the eyes, ἀκτῖνας προσώπου, Pi.Fr.123, cf. Ar.V.1032; visual rays, Hipparch. ap. Placit.4.13.9.
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2. metaph., brightness, splendour, glory, . ἀγώνων, καλῶν ἐργμάτων, Pi.P.11.48, I.4(3).42; ἀκτῖνες ὄλβου splendid fortunes, Id.P.4.255.
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3. ray shot from the left by planet to planet (opp. ὄψις, q.v.), Heph.Astr. 1.16, Porph.Intr.p.189; τὴν . ἐπιφέρων Vett. Val. 136.19, cf. Ptol. Tetr.126.
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II. spoke of a wheel, AP9.418 (Antip.). [See: 'radius,' 'radix,' |'root'|]