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φάσις (A) [α^], εως, ἡ: (φαίνω):—
A.denunciation, information laid, “γραφαὶ ἢ φάσεις ἢ ἐνδείξεις ἢ ἀπαγωγαί” And.1.88, cf. Lys.Fr.209 S., Din.Fr.89.36, D.25.78, Lex ap.eund.35.51; “ἡ περὶ τὸ πλοῖον φ.” Id.58.5, cf. SIG695.83 (Magn.Mae., ii B. C.).
II. (φαίνομαι) appearance, of stars, Ti.Locr.97 b, Arist.Mete.342b34, Nic.Th.122, Phld.D.3.10, etc.: special uses,
a. πρὸς τὸν ὁρίζοντα φ. appearance above the horizon, opp. ὑπὸ τὸν ὁρίζοντα κρύψις, Gem.13.2.
b. heliacal rising, opp. κρύψις, φ. ἑῷαι, ἑσπέριαι, Ptol. Tetr.99, cf. Alm.8.6, al.
c. including the previous signf. and κρύψεις, Id.Phas.p.3 H., al. (pl.), Vett.Val. 241.30 (pl.).
d. pl., phases of the moon, Gem.8.11, Gal.9.904, Man. 2.491,497.
2. an appearance, trace, τινος Anon. ap. Suid. s.v. φασί.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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