ANAPHE, (anc. geogr.) an island spontaneously emerging out of the Cretan sea, near Thera, (Pliny, Strabo.) Now called Nausis. Its name is from the sudden appearance of the new moon to the Argonauts in a storm, (Apollonius.) Anaphous, an epithet of Apollo, who was worshipped there. Anaphai, the people.