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ἑῷος , α, ον, A.Pr.25, etc.; also ος, ον E.Ph.169 (lyr.), D.H.1.12, dub. in Gem.Calend.p.220 M.: poet. ἑώϊος , Ion. and in Hom. ἠοῖος (qq. v.): (ἕως (A)):—
A.in or of the morning, πάχνην ἑ. ἥλιος σκεδᾷ the morning rime, A. l. c.; “ἑ. φθέγματ᾽ ὀρνίθων” S.El.18, etc.; ἑ. ἀστήρ, = Ἑωσφόρος, E.Fr.929, cf. Pl.Epigr.15; “οὔθ᾽ ἕσπερος οὔθ᾽ ἑ. οὕτω θαυμαστός” Arist.EN1129b28; ἑ. ἐξαναστῆναι to get up early, E.El.786.
2. eastern, “τεῖχος” X.HG4.4.9; τὰ ἑ. eastern parts, Luc.Cont.5; ἐξ ἑῴας (sc. χώρας) Arist.Pr.946b14; “κατὰ τὰς ἑῴας” Id.Mu.394a11 (perh. in the morning).
b. ἑῴα, ἡ, = Oriens, the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, “ὁ τὴν ἑῴαν ἐπιτροπεύων” Philostr.VS2.1.13; ἀρχὸς ἑῴας, = Lat. magister militum per Orientem, IG14.1073; ὕπαρχος ἑῴας, = Lat. praefectus praetorio Orientis, AP9.690 (v A. D.).
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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