αἰπύς , εῖα, ύ: steep, towering; of mountains,
towns (here esp. the form αἰπεινός),
streams with steep banks (αἰπὰ ῥέεθρα, Θ
369, Il. 21.9, cf. 10), a
noose ‘hung high,’ Od.
11.278; met. πόνος,
‘arduous;’ ὄλεθρος,
‘utter,’ etc.; αἰπύ οἱ
ἐσσεῖται, he will find it ‘steep,’
Il. 13.317.