ἀφανής: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ές, ([[φαίνομαι]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[unseen]], especially of the [[nether world]], Ταρτάρου πυθμήν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Fr.</span>207</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>860</span> (lyr.); ἀ. κἀν Ἀΐδα δόμῳ φοιτάσῃς Sapph.68; <b class="b3">χάσμα ἀφανές</b> a [[blind]] [[pit]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.76</span>; <b class="b3">ἡ ἀφανὴς θεός</b>, of [[Persephone]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1556</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">ὁ ἀφανὴς πόλος</b>, i. e. the [[south]] [[pole]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Cael.</span>285b21</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mu.</span>394b31</span> (but ἀφανὴς [[κόσμος]] = [[starless]], <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.6.22</span>). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ἀφανὴς γίγνεσθαι</b>, = [[ἀφανίζεσθαι]], [[disappear]], ὑπὸ γῆν <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.104</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IT</span>757</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>360a</span>; so ἀφανὴς ἦν [[disappeared]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.37</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>1.4.7</span>; of [[soldier]]s [[missing]] after a [[battle]], <span class="bibl">Th.2.34</span>; [[runaway]], [[absconded]], PGen.5.4(ii A. D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b3">στήλας ἀ. ποιῆσαι</b> [[obliterate]], <span class="title">SIG</span>38.38 (Teos). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[unnoticed]], [[secret]], ἀφανὴς νόος ἀθανἁτων <span class="bibl">Sol.17</span>; <b class="b3">ἀφανὲς νεῦμα</b> a [[secret]] [[sign]], <span class="bibl">Th.1.134</span>; ἀφανὲς [[χωρίον]] = [[out of sight]], <span class="bibl">Id.4.29</span>, cf. ib.<span class="bibl">67</span>; ἀ. [[ξιφίδιον]] = [[concealed]], <span class="bibl">Id.8.69</span>; <b class="b3">δι' ἐπιστολῶν ἀφανῶν</b> [[secret]] or [[invisible]] [[writing]]s, <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>102.29</span>: c. part., <b class="b3">ἀφανεῖς εἶναι ἀπιόντες</b> = [[depart]] [[without being noticed]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>4.2.4</span>; ἀφανεῖς που ὄντες ἠδίκουν <span class="bibl">Th.1.68</span>; <b class="b3">μαντικῇ χρώμενος οὐκ ἀ. ἦν</b> he was [[well known to]] do... <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>1.1.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[uncertain]], [[doubtful]], ἀφανεῖς νοῦσοι <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.84</span>; <b class="b3">σὺν ἀφανεῖ λόγῳ</b> on an [[uncertain]] [[charge]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>657</span> (lyr.); ἐν ἀφανεῖ λ. <span class="bibl">Antipho 5.59</span>; [[μόρος]] <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1682</span> (lyr.); [[ὄνομα]] <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>1322</span> (lyr.); [[ἐλπίς]] <span class="bibl">Th.5.103</span>; [[πρόφασις]] ἀφανεστάτη λόγῳ <span class="bibl">Id.1.23</span>; οὐκ ἀ. τεκμήρια <span class="bibl">X. <span class="title">Ages.</span>6.1</span>; <b class="b3">μεθέντας τἀφανῆ</b>, opp. <b class="b3">τὸ πρὸς ποσί</b>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>131</span>; <b class="b3">ἀφανὴς χάρις</b> a [[favour]] [[from an unknown hand]], <span class="bibl">D.19.240</span>; ἐς ἀφανὲς τὸν μῦθον ἀνενείκας <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.23</span>; μισῶ μὲν ὅστις τἀφανῆ περισκοπῶν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>737</span>; τὰ ἀ. [[μεριμνᾶν]] <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>672</span>; ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀ. φανεροῖς μαρτυρίοις χρῆσθαι <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">EN</span>1104a13</span>; of what is [[beyond the evidence of sense]], opp. φανερόν, ἁρμονίη ἀ. φανερῆς κρείττων <span class="bibl">Heraclit.54</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Sign.</span>1</span>, al.; τἀφανὲς διὰ τοῦ φαινομένου [[συλλογίζεσθαι]] <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Nat.</span>14.4</span>; τὸ τῆς τύχης ἀ. οἷ προβήσεται <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>785</span>; τὸ ἀφανὲς τοῦ κατορθώσειν <span class="bibl">Th.2.42</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν ἀφανεῖ ἔτι κεῖσθαι, ἐν τῷ ἀφανεῖ εἶναι</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.1.42</span>, <span class="bibl">3.23</span>; ἐν ἀ. κεκτῆσθαί τι [[secretly]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 954e</span>; ἐκ τοῦ ἀφανοῦς <span class="bibl">Th.1.51</span>, <span class="bibl">4.96</span>, etc.; ἐξ ἀ. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>57.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span> 1332</span>: neut. pl. as Adv., <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>1289</span> (lyr.). Regul.Adv. ἀφανῶς <span class="bibl">Th. 3.43</span>, etc.: Sup. ἀφανέστατα <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>5.1.27</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> of persons and things, [[unnoticed]], [[obscure]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>1244</span>; also οὐ γὰρ ἀ. κρινεῖτε τὴν δίκην <span class="bibl">Th.3.57</span>; ἀφανὴς καὶ ταπεινὴ [[φύσις]] <span class="bibl">D.61.35</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b3">ἀφανὴς οὐσία</b> [[personal]] [[property]], as [[money]], [[which can be secreted and made away with]] (cf. [[ἀφανίζω]] <span class="bibl">1.7</span>), opp. [[φανερά]] ([[real]]), as land, <span class="bibl">Lys.32.4</span>, cf. <span class="title">BCH</span>27.219 (Crete); opp. [[ἐμφανής]], <span class="title">IG</span>12(2).15.8 (Mytil.), <span class="title">SIG</span>554.17; but simply, [[concealed]], ἀφανῆ καταστῆσαι τὴν οὐσίαν <span class="bibl">Lys.20.23</span>: in lit. sense, ἀφανὴς [[πλοῦτος]] <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Ec.</span>602</span>; [[πλοῦτος]] ἀφανὴς ὃν σὺ κατορύξας ἔχεις <span class="bibl">Men.128.16</span>.</span>