λευκός, ή, όν,
light, bright, clear (opposed to μέλας in all senses), αἴγλη [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.45 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; λευκὸν (variant{λαμπρόν}).. ἠέλιος ὥς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.185; λ. φάος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 708 (Lyric poetry),compare below 11.3; αἰθήρ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1228 (_anapaest meter_) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of metallic surfaces, λέβης [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.268 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; λ. γαλήνη a glassy calm, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.94 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of water, clear, limpid, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.282, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.70, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 23 (_anapaest meter_); λ. νᾶμα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 573; - ότατος ποταμῶν 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Jovem” 19. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, clear, distinct, of the voice, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 106a25, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 6.41 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: in literary sense, clear, λ. στίχος [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 11.347 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus): proverbial, λευκὸς Ἑρμῆς] Refs 1st c.AD+], when a rogue was detected, [[ 15th c.AD: Macarius Paroemiographus 5.53. ] Refs] adverb -κῶς, πάντα φαίνειν, of Hermes, [[ 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 16 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: comparative -ότερον, διαλεχθῆναι [[ 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 7.20. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II of colour, white, frequently in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], varying from the pure white of snow ([ἵπποι] -ότεροι χιόνος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.437)] Refs 8th c.BC+] to the grey of dust (λευκοὶ ἐγένοντο κονισάλῳ [[ 5.503); γάλα λ. 4.434; κρῖ 5.196; ἄλφιτα 18.560; ἡνία λεύκ᾽ ἐλέφαντι 5.583; ὀδόντες 10.263; ὀστέα 16.347; ἱστία 1.480; φᾶρος 18.353, etc.] Refs]; λ. ἅρμα, ={λεύκιππον}, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 172 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the white horses used by tyrants, λ. ζεῦγος [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.158 ] Refs 4th c.BC+], compare λεύκιππο; λ. λίθος marble, [[ “OGI” 219.36 (Sigeum, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+], etc., compare λευκόλιθο; λευκῷ[ν]λίθῳ λ. στάθμη a white line on a white stone, proverbial of explanations which do not explain, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 330 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ λ. ῥίζα white root (= ἡ τοῦ δρακοντίου, accusative to [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.118), 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 2.48, “Nat.Mul.” 32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently of white or grey hair, λ. κάρη [[ 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 10.23; θρίξ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1092; λ. γῆρας [prev. author] “Aj.” 625 (Lyric poetry); λευκὰ γήρᾳ σώματα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 909, etc. ] Refs 7th c.BC+]