Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, αἰόλος

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2. as epith. of armour, glittering, “τεύχεα” Il.5.295; “σάκος” 7.222, 16.107; “κνώδων” S.Aj.1025:—generally, changeful of hue, sheeny, “δράκων” Id.Tr.11; αἰόλα νύξ star-spangled night, ib.94 (lyr.); αἰ. πυρὸς κάσις smoke flushed by fire-light, A.Th.494; κύων αἰ. speckled, Call.Dian.91, etc.; αἰόλα σάρξ discoloured, S.Ph.1157 (lyr.); “ὀφθαλμοί” Adam.1.8, cf. 11.

II. metaph.,

1. chequered, “αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακά” A.Supp.328; changeful, “ἰαχή” E.Ion 499 (lyr.); “χορεία” Ar.Ra.248 (lyr.); νόμος Tclest.2; “αἰόλα φωνέων” Theoc.16.44; αἰόλοι ἡμέραι changeable days, Arist.Pr.941b24.

2. shifty, slippery, “ἔπος” Sol.11.7; “ψεῦδος” Pi.N. 8.25; “κέρδεσσι” B.14.57; “μηχάνημα λυγκὸς αἰολώτερον” Trag.Adesp. 349.—Chiefly poet.

B. proparox. Αἴολος , ου, ὁ, the lord of the winds, properly the Rapid or the Changeable, Od., etc.

2. name of a kind of σκάρος, Nic. Thyat. ap. Ath.7.320c.

3. Pythag., = 4, or ἐνιαυτός, Theol.Ar.22.

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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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (17):
- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 494
- Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 328
- Aristophanes, Frogs, 2
- Aristophanes, Frogs, 248
- Bacchylides, Epinicians, 14.57
- Euripides, Ion, 499
- Homer, Iliad, 12.167
- Homer, Iliad, 16.107
- Homer, Iliad, 7.222
- Homer, Iliad, 19.404
- Homer, Iliad, 22.509
- Homer, Odyssey, 22.300
- Sophocles, Ajax, 1025
- Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1157
- Sophocles, Trachiniae, 11
- Sophocles, Trachiniae, 94
- Homer, Iliad, 5.295

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