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μετάρσιος , Dor. πεδάρσιος , ον, also α, ον Hdt.7.188, E.IT27: (μεταίρω):—Ion., poet., and in late Prose, as D.S.3.51, Ocell.3.1, J. AJ6.9.4, Porph. ap. Eus.PE3.9, for μετέωρος,
A.raised from the ground, high in air, “ἐσπᾶτο γὰρ πέδονδε καὶ μ.” S.Tr.786; μετάρσιοι χολαὶ διεσπείροντο melted into air, Id.Ant.1009; λόγοι π. θρῴσκουσι are scattered to the winds, A.Ch.846; ὑπὲρ πυρᾶς μ. ληφθεῖς' E.l.c.; “μετάρσιον πλευρὰν ἔπαιρε” Id.Hec.499; “μ. ἀναπτόμενος” Ar.Av.1382; ναῦς ἄρμεν᾽ ἔχοισα μ. having her sails hoisted, Theoc.13.68; τὰ μ., = μετέωρα, the sky, heavens, Thphr.Ign.3; but defined as τὰ μεταξὺ τοῦ αἰθέρος καὶ τῆς γῆς, opp. τὰ μετέωρα ( = τὰ ἐν οὐρανῷ), Ach.Tat.Intr. Arat.32; πῦρ μ., opp. αἴθριον, D.H.16.1; τὰ μ. also, birds of the air, J. l.c., cf. Porph. l.c.
2. on the high seas, ὅσας δὲ τῶν νεῶν μεταρσίας ἔλαβε [ὁ ἄνεμος] Hdt. l.c.; νῆσος μ. a floating is land, Hecat.305 J.
3. in suspense, “ὅσσα Νεῖκος ἔρυκε μετάρσιον” Emp.35.9.
II. metaph., high above this world, “διὰ μούσας καὶ μ. ᾖξα” E.Alc.963 (lyr.); “μ. ὕμνος” IG3.770: in bad sense, puffed up, elated, μ. τὴν ψυχὴν τηρεῖν Vett. Val.340.13; “ἡ πάρος ἀγλαΐῃσι μ.” AP5.272.1 (Agath.).
2. of things, airy, empty, “κόμποι” E.Andr.1220 (lyr.).
III. in Medic., of the breath, = μετέωρος 1.2 , “πνεῦμα” Hp.Mul.2.130; πνοὰς θερμὰς πνέω μετάρσι᾽, οὐ βέβαια (neut. pl. as Adv.) E.HF1093.
2. of the face, puffed up, swollen, Hp.Mul.2.110.
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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