λευκαθίζω

λευκᾰθ-ίζω,

• to be white, Hdt. 8.27 (codd. opt.), PLeid.X. 84, Gloss.; of spots on the body, LXX Le. 13.38; [τρίχες] λευκαθίζουσαι Babr. 22.9; αἶγες χιόνι λ. Id. 45.3, cf. Ael. NA 17.8, 9; λ. οἱ λόφοι, of snow-clad hills, Alciphr. 3.30; οἰκία λ. γύψῳ Epict. Gnom. 43; of fluids in the eye, to be colourless, Cass. Pr. 27; of eyes, S.E. P. 1.44:—Pass., λελευκαθισμένη clad in white, LXX Ca. 8.5. (λευκανθ- is read in Babr., but is against the metre, also in Ael., Alciphr., Epict., Cass., and S.E., and is v.l. in Hdt. l.c., LXX Ca. l.c.; cf. λευκαθέω, ὑπολευκαθίζω.)