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ἥλιος
ἥλιος .ἥλιος, ὁ, the sun, Lat. sol, Hom., etc.; ὁρᾶν φάος ἠελίοιο, i.e. to be alive, Il.—The Sun furnished the earliest mode of determining the points of the heaven, πρὸς ἠῶ τʼ ἠέλιόν τε, i. e. towards the East, opp. to πρὸς ζόφον, Hom.; πρὸς ἠῶ τε καὶ ἡλίου ἀνατολάς, opp. to πρὸς ἑσπέρην, Hdt. day, a day, like Lat. soles, Pind., Eur.: so in pl. hot sunny days, Thuc. as prop. n., Helios, the sun-god, Hom.; in later Poets = Apollo, Aesch., etc.

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the sun

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ἥλιος
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ἥλιος
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ηλιος
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ἥλιος .ἥλιος, ὁ, the sun, Lat. sol, Hom., etc.; ὁρᾶν φάος ἠελίοιο, i.e. to be alive, Il.—The Sun furnished the earliest mode of determining the points of the heaven, πρὸς ἠῶ τʼ ἠέλιόν τε, i. e. towards the East, opp. to πρὸς ζόφον, Hom.; πρὸς ἠῶ τε καὶ ἡλίου ἀνατολάς, opp. to πρὸς ἑσπέρην, Hdt. day, a day, like Lat. soles, Pind., Eur.: so in pl. hot sunny days, Thuc. as prop. n., Helios, the sun-god, Hom.; in later Poets = Apollo, Aesch., etc.
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14659
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urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:middle-liddell.perseus-eng2-n14669
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h(/lios

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