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αἰόλος Deriv. uncertain. The penult. is lengthd. in the gen. Αἰόλου μεγαλήτορος, metri grat., Od.

I.quick-moving, Il.; αἰόλαι εὐλαί wriggling worms, id=Il.; so of wasps and serpents, id=Il.
II.changeful of hue, gleaming, glancing, of arms and armour, id=Il.; (but here also it may be explained moving with the body, manageable, Lat. habilis);— also, αἰόλα νύξ star-spangled night, Soph.; Aesch. calls smoke flushed by fire-light αἰόλη πυρὸς κάσις; αἰόλα σάρξ discoloured from disease, Soph.
III.metaph.,
1.changeful, shifting, varied, κάκα Aesch.; of sounds, ἰαχή Eur.
2.shifty, wily, slippery, ψεῦδος Pind.
B.as prop. n., proparox. Αἴολος, ου, ὁ, lord of the winds, properly the rapid or the changeable, Od.

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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