λύχνος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, pl.<br><span class="bld">A</span> λύχνοι Batr.180, Ar.Eq.1315, Antiph.70,152, PPetr.2p.72 (iii B. C.): freq. also [[λύχνα]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.62,133, E.Cyc.514 (lyr.), Call.Hec.1.4.11, etc., prob. in Alc.41.1. (Fr. λυκ-sno-, cf. [[λύκη]]):—[[portable light]], [[lamp]], [[χρύσεος]] λύχνος Od.19.34; λύχνα [[καίειν]], λύχνα [[ἀνάπτειν]], [[light]] [[lamp]]s, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] ll. cc.; ἅπτε, παῖ, λ. Ar.Nu.18; λύχνους [[ἅπτειν]] = to [[have an illumination]], Arr.Epict.2.17.37; λύχνους ἀποσβέσαι Ar.Pl.668; λύχνος ἀπεσβήκει = had been [[put out]], Pl.Smp.218b; [[περὶ λύχνων ἁφάς]] = [[about lamp-lighting time]], [[at the time when the lights come on]], i.e. [[towards nightfall]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.215, D.S.19.31; [[πάννυχος]] λύχνος παρακαίεται = [[lamp]]s are kept [[burn]]ing all [[night]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.130; καύσεις λύχνων Sammelb.1161.14 (i B. C.); [[ἔλαιον]] ἡμῖν οὐκ ἔνεστ' ἐν τῷ λύχνῳ Ar.Nu.56; cf. [[κεράτινος]], pl., used as title of book, sunt etiam qui λύχνους inscripserint, Gell.Praef.7.<br><span class="bld">2</span> in plural, [[οἱ λύχνοι]] or [[τὰ λύχνα]] = the [[lamp market]], οὑκ τῶν λύχνων ib.1065.<br><span class="bld">II</span> a [[fish]], Str. 17.2.4, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; cf. Lat. [[lucerna]], Plin.HN9.82.