Book 15
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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.
