φέγγος, εος, τό,
light, splendour, lustre, τῆλε δὲ φ. ἀπὸ χροὸς ἀθανάτοιο λάμπε θεᾶς [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 278; τὸ φ. τῆς χρόας 4th-3rd c.BC: Duris Epigrammaticus 14 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; τὸ φ. τῆς δόξης Κυρίου LXX.Eze.10.4 ] LXX+4th c.BC+]; φ. ἀστραπῆς ὅπλων[[LXX.Hab.3.11 ] LXX]: frequently like{φάος}, of daylight, either absolutely or with some word added, φ. ἡλίου [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 377, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 606, etc.; τὸ φ. τοῦ θεοῦ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 722 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; without the Article, φ. εἰσορᾶν θεοῦ [[ [prev. author] “Or.” 1025, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 673 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὦ φέγγος[[ [prev. work] 859, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 866; ὦ φ. ἡμέρας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1577; δεκάτῳ φέγγει ἔτους in the tenth year, [prev. work] 504. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b moonlight, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νυκτερινὰ φέγγη, opposed to ἡμερινὸν φῶς, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 508c; ἐὰν τὸ φ. ἐκλείψῃ “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 4.172, compare 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 38.255; φῶς ἡμέρας, φέγγος σελήνης 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] see at {φέγγο; τὸ φ. [τοῦ γάλακτος}], of the milky way, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 346a26. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__c of men, φ. ἰδεῖν, προσιδεῖν, to see the light, come into the world, ἐπεὶ πάμπρωτον εἶδον φ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.111; ἀελίου προσιδεῖν φ. 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.162; λιπεῖν φ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 954; ὄλωλα, φ. οὐκέτ᾽ ἔστι μοι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1144. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]