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phares

phares [LL < φάρες < Aramaic] , third of the words written on the wall in Dan. v 25, glossed as divisio, divisit, divisum. mane techel ~es [gl.: sc. divisio interpretatur], quod interpretatum dicitur numeravit, pensavit, divisit Aldh. VirgP 21 p. 251; 1346 mane tegel phares, lupus et lynx non leo pares Pol. Poems I 28; fares Pol. Poems I 40; phares Ib. 164; R. Bury Phil. 16. 209 (v. 2 mane); a Deo est missus articulus manus, qui scripsit in pariete, vidente rege, ‘mane, techel, ~es’, et hec est interpretatio sermonis ‥ ~es, divisum est regnum tuum et datum est Medis et Persis (J. Bridl.) Pol. Poems I 165.

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