- φᾶρος
- φᾶρος, εος, τό, later also [full] φάρος [v. sub fin.]:—A a large piece of cloth, web,
φάρε' ἔνεικε Καλυψὼ . . , ἱστία ποιήσασθαι Od.5.258
, cf. E.Hec.1082 (lyr.).II commonly, a wide cloak or mantle without sleeves, μαλακὸν δ' ἔνδυνε χιτῶνα . . περὶ δὲ μέγα βάλλετο φ. (of a man) Il.2.43;πορφύρεον μέγα φ. ἔχων ἐν χειρί 8.221
, cf. Od.15.61, Xenoph.3.3, Pherecyd.Syr.2, Hdt.9.109, E.El.1221 (lyr., pl.); also worn by women, Od.5.230, Hes.Op.198, A.Ch.11, etc.; drawn over the head,μέγα φ. ἑλὼν . . κὰκ κεφαλῆς εἴρυσσε Od.8.84
, cf. E.Supp.286, Ar.Th.890; used as a shroud or pall, Il.18.353, 24.580, S.Aj.916; πύματον φ. my last rag, Pl.Eleg.12;εἰς ὅ κε φ. ἐκτελέσω . . Λαέρτῃ ἥρωϊ ταφήϊον Od.2.97
, 24.132; also of bed-spread,δεμνίοις . . στρωτὰ βάλλουσαν φάρη S.Tr.916
: ἀναιδείας φ. (expld. by Hsch. from Il.2.262), S.Fr.291.—[dialect] Ep., Trag. (for Ar. l. c. is paratrag. and Philetaer.19 is corrupt), and twice in Hdt. (Corinthian acc. to AB1096). [[pron. full] ᾱ in Hom. and mostly in later [dialect] Ep.;φᾰρέεσσι Hes.Op.198
codd., A.R.3.863. A. has [pron. full] ᾱ always; S. has [pron. full] ᾰ in Tr.916, Frr.360, 373, 586, and never certainlyᾱ; E.
has both ᾱ, E. El.191, Hec. l. c., IT149 (all lyr.), al., and ᾰ, HF414 (s. v. l.), Andr.831, Or.840, Hipp.133 (all lyr.), Supp.286, cf. Hdn.Gr.2.942.]
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