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Lucifer
(Lat.)
The planet Venus, as the bright “Morning Star”. Before Milton, Lucifer had never been a name of the Devil. Quite the reverse, since the Christian Saviour is made to say of himself in Revelations (xvi. 22.) “I am . . . the bright morning star” or Lucifer. One of the early Popes of Rome bore that name; and there was even a Christian sect in the fourth century which was called the Luciferians. (TG).
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Shortly: The planet Venus, as the bright “Morning Star”. Before Milton, Lucifer had never been a name of the ...