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Headword:
Φανός
Adler number: phi,77
Translated headword: Phanos; bright, clean, light
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Radiant. [sc. Someone] reporting and making clear the matters and disclosing [them]; or from the [verb] φαίνω ["to reveal"], that is to blackmail. "So that I will be your Phanos, scribe of lawsuits."[1] But they used to call φανόν anything which revealed [something]. But they used to make lamps out of grape-vines. Hence the expression "vine's light".[2]
Greek Original:Φανός: φαεινός. καταγγέλλων καὶ φανερὰ ποιῶν τὰ πράγματα καὶ μηνύων. ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ φαίνειν, ὅ ἐστι συκοφαντεῖν. ὅπως ἔσομαί σοι φανὸς ὑπογραφεὺς δικῶν. Φανὸν δὲ πᾶν τὸ φαῖνον ἐκάλουν. ἐκ δὲ τῶν ἀμπελίνων τὰς λαμπάδας κατεσκεύαζον. διὸ λέγεται φανὸς ἀμπέλου.
Notes:
For the adjective
φανός cf.
phi 71.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Knights 1256 (web address 1), preceded here by material from the
scholia there. Phanos is routinely (e.g. LSJ s.v. II, LGPN ii) taken to be a real individual, his name appropriate to his livelihood.
[2] From the fuller
scholia on
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 308, where the noun
φανός ("torch") occurs (web address 2).
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: agriculture; biography; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; law; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 July 2011@15:28:32.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (tweaked tr; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 8 July 2011@03:26:11.
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