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Headword:
*fano/s
Adler number: phi,77
Translated headword: bright, clean, light; Phanos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] radiant. [sc. Someone] reporting and making clear the matters and disclosing [them]; or from the [verb] fai/nw ["to reveal"], that is to blackmail. "So that I will be your Phanos, scribe of lawsuits."[1] But they used to call fano/n anything which revealed [something]. But they used to make lamps out of grape-vines. Hence the expression "vine's light".[2]
Greek Original:*fano/s: faeino/s. katagge/llwn kai\ fanera\ poiw=n ta\ pra/gmata kai\ mhnu/wn. h)\ a)po\ tou= fai/nein, o(/ e)sti sukofantei=n. o(/pws e)/somai/ soi fano\s u(pografeu\s dikw=n. *fano\n de\ pa=n to\ fai=non e)ka/loun. e)k de\ tw=n a)mpeli/nwn ta\s lampa/das kateskeu/azon. dio\ le/getai fano\s a)mpe/lou.
Notes:
For the adjective
fano/s 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
fano/s ("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.
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