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— * * * * *[144] 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, * * * * * Plato too, in his Long Night, says— And then upon the top he'll have a candle, Bright with two wicks. And these candles with two wicks are mentioned also by Metagenes, in his Man fond of Sacrificing; and by Philonides in his Buskins. But Clitarchus, in his Dictionary, says that the Rhodians give the name of λοφνὶς to a torch made of the bark of the vine. But Homer calls torches δεταί— The darts fly round him from an hundred hands, And the red terrors of the blazing brands (δεταὶ), Till late, reluctant, at the dawn of day, Sour he departs, and quits th' untasted prey.[145] [Sidenote: TORCHES.] A torch was also called ἑλάνη, as Amerias tells us; but Nicander of Colophon says that ἑλάνη means a bundle of rushes. Herodotus uses the word in the neuter plural, λύχνα, in the second book of his History. Cephisodorus, in his Pig, uses the word λυχναψία, for what most people call λυχνοκαυτία, the lighting of candles. And Cynulcus, who was always attacking Ulpian, said;—But now, my fine supper-giver, buy me some candles for a penny, that, like the good Agathon, I may quote this line of the admirable Aristophanes— Bring now, as Agathon says, the shining torches (πεύκας); and when he had said this— Putting his tail between his lion's feet, he left the party, being very sleepy.