φωσφόρ-ος
(paroxytone), ον, poetry φαοσφόρος Lyric poetry Adesp. in [[ “PLit.Lond.” 51.5 ] Refs], φαεσφόρος [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 204, etc.] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:— bringing or giving light, Ἕως [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1157 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. ἀστήρ, of Dionysus at the mysteries, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 342 (Lyric poetry); φ. πεῦκαι [prev. author] “fragment” 599 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἴγλη, Ἦμαρ, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 1246, Εὐχή 24. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__b substantive, ὁ φ. (i.e. ἀστήρ), the light-bringer, i.e. the morning-star, a name specially given to the planet Venus, [[ 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 96e, 97a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 392a27, 399a8, 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 2.20.53, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.504, compare 1st c.BC: Alexander Ephesius Epicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Theon Smyrnaeus Philosophus p.138H. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of the eye, φ. ὄμματα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 45b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. κόραι, of the Cyclops, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 611 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b name of an eye-salve, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.747. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II torch-bearing, epithet of certain deities, especially of Hecate, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 569, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 858, “fragment” 594a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. θεά (i.e. Ἄρτεμις) [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 21, cf. Call.[same place]; νὴ τὴν Φωσφόρον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 443, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 58.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Hephaestus, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Hymni” 66.3: _plural_, ἱερεὺς Φωσφόρων “Hesperia” 4.49 (Athens, 2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]