A.grape-vine, Vitis vinifera (“ἄ. οἰνοφόρος” Dsc.4.181; ἄ.τῆς Ἴδης is a variety, V.v. apyrena, grape-currant, Thphr.HP3.17.4), Hom. (not in Il. exc. in Adj. ἀμπελόεις), etc.; “πυροὶ καὶ κριθαὶ καὶ ἄμπελοι” Od.9.110, cf.133, Alc.44, Hdt. 4.195, etc.; “ἄ. καὶ ἐλάαν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἀκρόδρυα” Thphr.HP4.4.11; ἄ. τὴν περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν κόπτοντες, in collective sense (cf. ἵππος, ἡ), Th.4.90; of wine, “ἀμπέλου δρόσος” Pi.O.7.2; “ἀμπέλου παῖς” Id.N.9.52.
2. “ἄ. ἀγρία” wild vine, Vitis silvestris, Dsc.4.181, 5.2, Plin.HN23.19:—also = ἄ. λευκή, Thphr.9.14.1, 9.20.3, Gal.14.186.
3. “ἄ. λευκή” bryony, Bryonia cretica, Dsc.4.182, Gal.11.826 (but λευκὴ ἄ. white grape, Thphr.CP1.20.5).
II. vineyard, Ael.NA11.32.
III. engine for protecting besiegers, mantlet, Apollod.Poliorc.141.7.
V. = αἰγιαλός (Cyren.), Hsch.