A.“αἴγεσιν” Il.10.486, “αἴγεσσιν” Choerob. in Theod.323; also Boeot. ἤγυς, = αἴγοις, IG7.3171:—goat, mostly fem., “μηκάδας αἶγας” Od.9.124; “λεύκας αἶγος” Sapph.7(s.v.l.), cf. Ar.Nu.71, Pl.Lg.639a, etc., but masc. in Od.14.106,530; also “τῶν αἰγῶν τῶν τραγῶν” Hdt.3.112:—once in Trag., S.Fr.793 (anap.).
2. αἲξ ἄγριος wild goat, prob. ibex (cf. αἴγαγρος)“, ἰονθάς” Od.14.50; “ἴξαλος” Il.4.105; “αἶγες ὀρεσκῷοι” Od.9.155; “ἀγρότεραι” 17.295:—proverbs, αἲξ οὐρανία in Com. as a source of mysterious and suspected wealth, in allusion to the horn of Amalthea, Cratin.244; “οὐράνιον αἶγα πλουτοφόρον” Com.Adesp.8; αἲξ τὴν μάχαιραν (sc. ηὗρε), of those who 'ask for trouble', Zen.1.27; αἲξ οὔπω τέτοκεν 'don't count your chickens before they are hatched', 1.42; “αἲξ Σκυρία: ἐπὶ τῶν τὰς εὐεργεσίας ἀνατρεπόντων: ἀνατρέπει γὰρ τὸ ἀγγεῖον ἀμελ χθεῖσα” Diogenian.2.33; “αἲξ ἐς θάλασσαν: ἀτενὲς ὁρᾷς, ἐπὶ τῶν φιληδούντων” 3.8; “κἂν αἲξ δάκἡ ἄνδρα πονηρόν” 5.87; “οὐ δύναμαι τὴν αἶγα φέρειν, ἐπί μοι θέτε τὸν βοῦν” Plu.2.830a; “ἐλεύθεραι αἶγες ἀρότρων: ἐπὶ τῶν βάρους τινὸς ἀπηλλαγμένων” Zen.3.69; κατ᾽ αἶγας ἀγρίας, = ἐς κόρακας, Hsch., Diogenian.5.49; “νοῦσος, αἶγας ἐς ἀγριάδας τὴν ἀποπεμπόμεθα” Call.Aet.3.1.13; αἰγῶν ὀνόματα, of worthless objects, Suid.
3. the star Capella, Arat. 157.
II. a water-bird, apparently of the goose kind, Arist.HA 593b23.
III. fiery meteor, Arist.Mete.341b3.