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- noun Plural form of
phane .
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Epiphanes is an abbreviation of theós epīphanes, which is the designation given himself by Antiochus on his coins, and means "the god who appears or reveals himself."
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And is said of this term epi, which is as much as to say as above, and of this term phanes which is as much to say as apparition.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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Thus, to account for its stability, Xeno phanes had supposed that it extended infinitely down - ward.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968
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But, in his only passage mentioning parrhesia, Aristo - phanes also uses it in a political sense (Thesmophoria - zusae, line 540).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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Perhaps it is possible to find implicit theories of this sort in Homer and other descriptions of Greek education, but, at any rate, more conscious and fuller theories arose in Greece through a conjunction of two developments — the rise of philosophy or what Aristo - phanes called the “Think Shop” and tried to laugh out of existence, and the breakdown of the traditional or
EDUCATION WILLIAM K. FRANKENA 1968
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We have hints of spec - ulation concerning the origin of human culture and society in a few early fragments, for example, Xeno - phanes frag.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES H. KAHN 1968
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After this, that same day a year, when he was thirty-one year old and thirteen days, he turned water into wine, and therefore it is called Bethania, said of beth, that is to say an house, and phanes, that is apparition.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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And then he was baptized in the flood or river of Jordan, and therefore it is called the thiephanie said of Theos, which is as much to say as God, and phanes apparition.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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Mega-bernes the first element is the well-known baga, "God," under the form commonly preferred by the Greeks; and the name is exactly equivalent to Curtius's Bagfo-phanes, which only differs from it by taking the participle of pa, "to protect," instead of the participle of pri, which has the same meaning.
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Permit us then, my Lord, to recommend Aristo - phanes; and with him, the distressed, and at present, declining, state of learning to your protec - tion The greatness of this author's genius need not be mentioned to your Lordship; but there is a much stronger recommendation to one of your known principles.
Comedies. Translated into English, with notes [by Richard Cumberland and others] 1812
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