Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lampas

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LAMPAS (λαμπάς). A general term for any thing which shines or gives light; as a torch (Virg. Aen. ix. 535. FAX); a lamp (Juv. iii. 285. LUCERNA); but, especially, a light which was carried by the youth of Athens in a race called λαμπαδηδρομία, at which the winner had to outstrip his competitors without extinguishing his light. It is represented by the annexed example (Lampas/1.1), from a Greek coin, and resembles a candlestick with a handle under the bottom, and a large disk above, to protect the hand from the gutterings of the pitchy or resinous matter of which the torch consisted.

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  Lampas/1.1