A.“ἄησι” Hes.Op.516, A.Fr.178 A., 3dual “ἄητον” Il.9.5, 3pl. “ἄεισι” Hes.Th.875; imper. 3sg. “ἀήτω” A.R.4.768; inf. “ἀῆναι” Od.3.183, Ep. ἀήμεναι ib.176; part. ἀείς, ἀέντος, etc., Emp.84.4, Il.5.526, al.: impf. 3sg. “ἄη” Od.12.325, 14.458:—Pass., 3sg. ἄηται, impf. ἄητο, part. ἀήμενος, v. infr. (ἄϜημι, cf. Skt. vā´ti 'blows', Lith. vējas 'wind'):—Ep. Verb, prop. breathe hard; hence, blow, of winds, “τώ τε Θρῄκηθεν ἄητον” Il.9.5, cf. Od.3.176,183, etc.; “οἵ τε νέφεα . . διασκιδνᾶσιν ἀέντες” Il.5.526; “ἀνέμων . . μένος ὑγρὸν ἀέντων” Od.19.440, cf. Hes.Th.869,875:—Pass., to be beaten by the wind, “ὑόμενος καὶ ἀήμενος” Od.6.131; of sound, of be carried by the wind, A.R.2.81: more freq. metaph., toss, wave to and fro, of the mind in doubt or fear, “δίχα θυμὸς ἄητο” Il.21.386; “περὶ παίδων θυμὸς ἄηται” A.R.3.688:— also μαρτύρια ἄηται ἐπ᾽ ἀνθρώπους are wafted to and fro, Pi.I.4(3).9; περί τ᾽ ἀμφί τε κάλλος ἄητο beauty breathed all about her, h.Cer.276; “ἀπὸ κρῆθεν τοῖον ἄητο” Hes.Sc.8, cf. Fr.245.
ἄημι , 3sg.
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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