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[Vishtaspa]

Shiny is "LAMPON". LEYKOS is white.
So leykos for shiny is a No-No.

Hyschios LEYKASPIS = white shielded implying the Argives

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Hello Stefanos;
There is linguistic evidence to support the "bright" first sense in ancient greek. As I said, the indoeuropean root (*leuk-) is the same as in Latin Lux-Lucis (light), greek "lukhnos" sanskrit roc-/loc-/ "to shine" and many others.
Homer calls for example leukos to water in Il XXIII 282, "udati leuko" in the sense of "bright or limpid", but the water is't white. Also Homer calls the sun leukos in other passage.
The sense of "white" is also very broad, meaning alsoo "clare, pale..."

But I agree with you respect the "white" meaning in the Xenophon's passage. I think also that in modern greek is always "white", but my knowledge concerns only about ancient greek and comparative linguistics, so I have much to learn from greek native speakers.

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