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Now, πανὸς was a name given to wood cut into splinters and bound together, which they used for a torch: Menander, in his Cousins, says— He enter'd, and cried out, πανὸν, πύχνον, λυχνοῦχον, any light— Making one into many. And Diphilus, in his Soldier, says— But now this, πανὸς is quite full of water. And before them Aeschylus, in his Agamemnon, had used the word πανός— * * * * *There is a hiatus here in the text of Athenæus, but he refers to Ag. 284,— μέγαν δὲ πανὸν ἐκ νήσου τρίτον, ἄθωον αἶπος ζηνὸς ἐξεδέξατο, where Clytæmnestra is speaking of the beacon fires, which had conveyed to her the intelligence of the fall of Troy.
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Alexis, too, uses the word ξυλολυχνούχου, and perhaps this is the same thing as that which is called by Theopompus ὀβελισκολύχνιον. But Philyllius calls λαμπάδες, δᾷδες. But the λύχνος, or candle, is not an ancient invention; for the ancients used the light of torches and other things made of wood. Phrynichus, however, says— Put out the λύχνον, * * * * * * Plato too, in his Long Night, says— And then upon the top he'll have a candle, Bright with two wicks. And these candles with two wicks are mentioned also by Metagenes, in his Man fond of Sacrificing; and by Philonides in his Buskins. But Clitarchus, in his Dictionary, says that the Rhodians give the name of λοφνὶς to a torch made of the bark of the vine. But Homer calls torches δεταί— The darts fly round him from an hundred hands, And the red terrors of the blazing brands (δεταὶ), Till late, reluctant, at the dawn of day, Sour he departs, and quits th' untasted prey. Iliad, xvii. 663. A torch was also called ἑλάνη, as Amerias tells us; but Nicander of Colophon says that ἑλάνη means a bundle of rushes. Herodotus uses the word in the neuter plural, λύχνα,, in the second book of his History.
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Cephisodorus, in his Pig, uses the word λυχναψία, for what most people call λυχνοκαυτία, the lighting of candles.
