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, λύχνον, 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 Æschylus, in his Agamemnon, had used the word πανός—
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61. Alexis, too, uses the word ξυλολυχνούχου, and perhaps this is the same thing as that which is called by Theopompus ὀβελισκολύχνιον. But Philyllius calls λαμπάδες, δᾷδε. But the λύχνος, or candle, is not an ancient invention; for the ancients used the light of torches and other things made of wood. Phrynichus, however, says—
Put out the λύχνον,