A.“ϝάνασσα” Inscr.Cypr.101 H., al.), ἡ, fem. of ἄναξ, queen, lady, addressed to goddesses, Od.3.380, 6.175; esp. in Att.to Athena, A.Eu.228,235,443, etc.
2. to a mortal, Od.6.149, etc.—Common in Poetry from Pi. downwds.; rare in Prose, as Isoc.9.72, Arist. Fr.526: c. dat., “ἐνέροισιν” A.R.3.862.