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ἠώς , ἡ, gen. ἠοῦς: dat. ἠοῖ: acc. (
A.“ἠόα” A.D.Pron.88.5) ἠῶ, also “ἠοῦν” Hedyl. ap. Ath.11.473a, AP7.472 (Leon.); Ep. loc. ἠῶθι: never used (exc. by Gramm.) in the uncontr. forms, unless Ἀόος be read in Pi.N. 6.52:—Att. ἕως , gen. and acc. ἕω: Dor. ἀώς , ἀβώρ (qq. v.): Aeol. αὔως Sapph.18, gen. “αὔως” Epigr.Gr.992 (Balbilla), acc. “αὔων” Sapph. Oxy.1787 Fr.1 + 2.18: Boeot. ἄας: ἐς αὔριον, Hsch.:—dawn, “ἦμος δ᾽ ἠριγένεια φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς” Od.2.1; light of day, ὅσον τ᾽ ἐπικίδναται ἠ. Il.7.451, etc.; esp. morning as a time of day, opp. μέσον ἦμαρ, δείλη, 21.111, etc.: gen. ἠοῦς at morn, early, 8.470,525: acc. ἠῶ the morning long, Od.2.434; “στάντα πρὸς πρώτην ἕω” S.OC477; “ἐξ ἠοῦς μέχρι δείλης ὀψίης” Hdt.7.167; ἐξ ἠοῦς εἰς ἠοῦν Hedyl.l.c.; ἠοῦν ἐξ ἠοῦς APl.c.; ἅμα ἠοι_ with, i.e. at, daybreak, Hdt.7.219; Att. ἅμα ἕῳ or ἅμα τῇ ἕῳ, Th.2.90, 4.72; τρὸ τῆς ἕω ib.31; Ep. “ἠῶθι πρό” Il.11.50, Od.5.469, 6.36; “ἐπὶ τὴν ἕω” Th.2.84; “εἰς τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἕω” X.An.1.7.1; ἐς ἀῶ to-morrow, Theoc.18.14.
2. day, Il.1.493, al., Od.19.192, Theoc.12.1, Call.Aet.1.1.1; “ἠ. δέ μοί ἐστιν ἥδε δυωδεκάτη, ὅτε. . ” Il.21.80; κατήϊεν ἐς δύσιν ἠ. Musae.110; μεσάτη ἠ. Orph.A.649.
3. life, Q.S.10.431; “φῶς λίπες ἠοῦς” IG14.1853.
4. the East, “πρὸς ἠῶ τ᾽ ἠέλιόν τε” Il.12.239 (South acc. to Str.10.2.12); “ἀπὸ ἠοῦς πρὸς ἑσπέρην” Hdt.2.8; τὰ πρὸς τὴν ἠῶ ibid.; “τὰ πρὸς ἠῶ τε καὶ ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα” Id.4.40, cf. Pl.Lg.760d, etc.; πρὸς ἕω τῆς πόλεως, τοῦ ποταμοῦ, to the East of . . , X.HG5.4.49, Plu.Luc.27; “πρὸ ἠοῦς τοῦ βωμοῦ” IG 7.235.45 (Oropus, iv B.C.).
II. pr. n., Ἠώς the goddess of dawn, Il. 11.1, Hes.Th.372,378, etc. (Cf. Skt. u[snull ]ā´s 'dawn', Lat. aurora, etc.)
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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