a divinity in the Orphic system, representing the first principle of life, Φάνητα . . , πρῶτος γὰρ ἐφάνθη Orph. A. 15.
The corpus record
Φάνης
phanes · ὁ
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Where it lives
- Histories 5 · 0.27/10k
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- Φάνῃ · Phanēi Herodotus, Histories 3.11.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2926)
- Φάνῃ · Phanēi Herodotus, Histories 3.11.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2927)
- Φάνης · Phanēs Herodotus, Histories 3.4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2885)
- Φάνης · Phanēs Herodotus, Histories 3.4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2886)
- Φάνης · Phanēs Herodotus, Histories 3.4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2888)
- Φάναις · Phanais Thucydides, History 8.24.3 (DIORISIS sentence 5516)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.