Crossword-Solution: PHANOS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Wherefore they may be said to take their name from _phanos_, "apparition," because things appear to them from afar.

Here I left cards and letters of introduction on the British Minister (who, I may remark _en passant_, never took the slightest notice of either,)[4]; and we drove homewards in a golden sunset, the whole city flushed with rosy light, and the heights of Corcovado and the Organ Mountains glowing purple--as purple as the evening tints of Hymettus and Pentelicus which gave to Athens the immortal name of [Greek: Iostéphanos], the violet-crowned.

The clerk Phanos, the persecutor of the hetaeriae, entered the room, while his companion, a subaltern officer of the city police, remained standing at the entrance.

While this was happening Phanos had gazed sternly around him, but at the sight of Thuphrastos and Xenocles his face brightened.

Yet--did I not hear a chatterer shrieking among you? He has shouted intolerably long; I’ll close his lips.” “If you heard that,” replied Lamon, “you must have heard our disapproval.” “Well then,” continued Phanos, “speak frankly.