ANAPHE, in Ancient Geography, an island spontaneously emerging out of the Cretan sea, near Thera (Pliny, Strabo); now called Nafso. Its name is from the sudden appearance of the new moon to the Argonauts in a storm (Apollonius). Anaphent, an epithet of Apollo, who was worshipped there. Anaphent, the people.
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