λύχνος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, pl. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> λύχνοι <span class="bibl">Batr.180</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1315</span>, <span class="bibl">Antiph.70</span>,<span class="bibl">152</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>2p.72</span> (iii B. C.): freq. also [[λύχνα]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.62</span>,<span class="bibl">133</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>514</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Hec.</span>1.4.11</span>, etc., prob. in <span class="bibl">Alc.41.1</span>. (Fr. λυκ-[[sno]]-, cf. [[Λύκη]]):—[[portable light]], [[lamp]], χρύσεος λ. <span class="bibl">Od.19.34</span>; <b class="b3">λύχνα καίειν, ἀνάπτειν</b>, light [[lamps]], Hdt. ll. cc.; ἅπτε, παῖ, λ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>18</span>; <b class="b3">λύχνους ἅπτειν</b> [[to have an illumination]], <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Epict.</span>2.17.37</span>; λύχνους ἀποσβέσαι <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>668</span>; <b class="b3">λ. ἀπεσβήκει</b> had been put out, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>218b</span>; <b class="b3">περὶ λύχνων ἁφάς</b> about [[lamp-lighting time]], i. e. towards nightfall, <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.215</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.19.31</span>; <b class="b3">πάννυχος λ. παρακαίεται</b> [[lamps]] are kept burning all night, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.130</span>; καύσεις λύχνων <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Sammelb.</span>1161.14</span> (i B. C.); ἔλαιον ἡμῖν οὐκ ἔνεστ' ἐν τῷ λύχνῳ <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>56</span>; cf. [[κεράτινος]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> in pl., <b class="b3">οἱ λύχνοι</b> or <b class="b3">τὰ λύχνα</b> <b class="b2">the lamp-market</b>, <b class="b3">οὑκ τῶν λ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">1065</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> a fish, <span class="bibl">Str. 17.2.4</span>, Hsch.; cf. Lat. [[lucerna]], <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>9.82</span>.</span>

|mdlsjtxt=[[λύχνος]], ὁ,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> pl. λύχνοι and [[λύχνα]];— a [[portable]] [[light]], a [[lamp]], carried in the [[hand]] or set on a [[lamp]]-[[stand]] ([[λυχνίον]]), Od., Hdt., [[attic]]; περὶ λύχνων ἁφάς [[about]] lamplighting [[time]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in pl. the [[lamp]]-[[market]], Ar.