A.“-ηθήσομαι” D.C.41.1, (ἀπ-) Hp.Fract.14, but “-ήσομαι” Aristid. 2.289J.: aor. ᾐωρήθην (v. infr.): pf. “ᾐώρημαι” Opp. H.3.532: (ἀείρω):—lift up, raise, ὑγρὸν νῶτον αἰωρεῖ, of the eagle raismg his back and feathers, Pi.P.1.9; swing as in a hammock, “αἰ. [γυναῖκα] ἐπὶ κλίνης φερομένην” Hp.Mul.1.68, cf. Aret.CA1.4; “τοὺς ὄφεις . . ὑπὲρ τῆς κεφαλῆς αἰωρῶν” D.18.260.
2. hang, τινὰ ἐκ τοῦ “ἀτράκτου” Luc.JConf.4:—metaph., ᾐώρει . . ἐλπίς, ὅτι τὸν χάρακα αἱρήσουσι excited them to think that . . , App.BC2.81, cf. Plu. Brut. 37.—Never in good Att.
II. more freq. in Pass., to be hung, hang, “δέρματα περὶ τοὺς ὤμους αἰωρεύμενα” Hdt.7.92; αἰωρουμένων τῶν ὀστῶν being raised, lifted, Pl.Phd. 98d; αἷμα ᾐωρεῖτο spouted up, Bion 1.25; ὁ ἥλιος ὑπὸ πνευμάτων αἰωρεῖται is tossed, carried to and fro, Diog.Oen.Fr.8.
2. swing, float in air, Pl.La.184a; hover, of birds, Arist.Mir.836a12; of a dream, S.El.1390(lyr.); oscillate, Pl. Phd.112b; of an army, “αἰωρουμένης στρατιᾶς περὶ Μεσοποταμίαν” Plu. Ant.28.
b. take passive exercise, Gal. Thras. 23.