Ἡ Φάνου θύρα
the door of Phanos, the door of Phanus
Translated by Jennifer Benedict4 Dec 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Demon says1 that Phanos was a usurer, and besides, he was blind. When the door of his treasury was being opened he prepared it such that no one might open it without making a noise. Some say that when his wife was cuckolding him he engineered the outer door so that it would not be opened without a sound. When she received her adulterous down through the roof, the neighbors jeered at people accomplishing nothing in safeguarding [themselves] and said it was "the door of Phanos".