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ἄγγελος , ὁ, ἡ,
A.messenger, envoy, Il.2.26, etc.; “δι᾽ ἀγγέλων ὁμιλέειν τινί” Hdt.5.92.ζ́, cf. SIG229.25 (Erythrae):— prov., Ἀράβιος ἄ., of a loquacious person, Men.32.
2. generally, one that announces or tells, e.g. of birds of augury, Il.24.292,296; Μουσῶν ἄγγελος, of a poet, Thgn.769; “ἄγγελε ἔαρος . . χελιδοῖ” Simon.74; ἄ. ἄφθογγος, of a beacon, Thgn.549; of the nightingale, ὄρνις . . Διὸς ἄ. S.El.149: c. gen. rei, “ἄ. κακῶν ἐμῶν” Id.Ant.277; “ἄγγελον γλῶσσαν λόγων” E.Supp.203; “αἴσθησις ἡμῖν ἄ.” Plot.5.3.3; neut. pl., “ἄγγελα νίκης” Nonn.D.34.226.
3. angel, LXX Ge.28.12, al., Ev.Matt.1.24, al., Ph.2.604, etc.
4. in later philos., semi-divine being, “ἡλιακοὶ ἄ.” Jul.Or.4.141b, cf. Iamb.Myst.2.6, Procl. in R.2.243 K.; “ἄ. καὶ ἀρχάγγελοι” Theol.Ar.43.10, cf. Dam.Pr.183, al.: also in mystical and magical writings, Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.45, PMag.Lond.46.121, etc.
II. title of Artemis at Syracuse, Hsch.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Euripides, Suppliants, 203
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.92
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 28.12
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 277
    • Sophocles, Electra, 149
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.292
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.26
    • New Testament, Matthew, 1.24
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