A.v. ἀνερείπομαι) αἱ, the Snatchers, a name used in Od. to personify whirlwinds or hurricanes (so “τυφῶσι καὶ ἁρπυίαις” Ph.1.333); “ἅρπυιαι ἀνηρείψαντο” Od.1.241, 20.77: acc. pl., Hes.Th.267; “πτηνά τ᾽ Ἁρπυιῶν γένη” Anaxil.22.5, cf. A.R.2.188: rarely in sg., Euph.113: as pr. n., Ἅρπυια Ποδάργη, mother of the horses of Achilles, Il.16.150; also name of one of Actaeon's hounds, A.Fr.245; cf. ἁρπυίας: ἁρπακτικοὺς κύνας, Hsch.
Ἅρπυιαι , (Ἀρεπ- on a vase from Aegina, Arch.Zeit.40.197, cf.EM 138.21, and prob. ἀρέπυιαι ἀνηρέψαντο shd. be read in Od. ll. cc.;
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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