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φα_νός , ή, όν, (contr. fr. φαεινός)
A.light, bright, Parm.8.41, Phryn. Com.93; “ἅμα φανοτάτῳ τινὶ πυρί” Pl.Phlb.16c; “ἵνα ὡς φανότατον ᾖ τὸ ἔσω” X.Cyn.10.7; τὸ φ. brightness, light, ib.5.18; “στρέφειν πρὸς τὸ φ. ἐκ τοῦ σκοτώδους” Pl.R.518c, cf. 478c (Comp.); φανά τε καὶ καλά ib.506d, cf. Phld.Po.2.45; “φανότατος ἀήρ” Gal.18(2).285; “τοῖς φανοτάτοις θεῶν Ἡλίῳ καὶ Σελήνῃ” Hld.10.4.
2. of garments, washed clean, “χλαῖνα” Ar.Ach.845 (lyr.); “σισύρα” Id.Ec.347.
3. bright, joyous, “φαναῖς ἐν εὐφροσύναις” A.Pr.538 (lyr.); “φ. βίον διάγειν” Pl.Phdr. 256d.
4. conspicuous, “ἐλλόγιμος καὶ φ.” Id.Smp.197a.
5. Adv. -νῶς clearly: Comp. “φανότερον” Jul.Or.4.145b; Sup. φανότατα, Luc. Hist.Conscr.44.
II. Φᾶνος, ὁ (properisp., cf. Hdn.Gr.1.175), name of a συκοφάντης, Ar.Eq.1256.
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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