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αἰόλος , η, ον, (ος, ον Arist.Pr., v. infr.)
2. as epith. of armour, glittering, “τεύχεαIl.5.295; “σάκος7.222, 16.107; “κνώδωνS.Aj.1025:—generally, changeful of hue, sheeny, “δράκωνId.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.); “ὀφθαλμοίAdam.1.8, cf. 11.
II. metaph.,
1. chequered, “αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακάA.Supp.328; changeful, “ἰαχήE.Ion 499 (lyr.); “χορείαAr.Ra.248 (lyr.); νόμος Tclest.2; “αἰόλα φωνέωνTheoc.16.44; αἰόλοι ἡμέραι changeable days, Arist.Pr.941b24.
2. shifty, slippery, “ἔποςSol.11.7; “ψεῦδοςPi.N. 8.25; “κέρδεσσιB.14.57; “μηχάνημα λυγκὸς αἰολώτερονTrag.Adesp. 349.—Chiefly poet.
B. proparox. Αἴολος , ου, , 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.
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    • 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
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    • Homer, Odyssey, 22.300
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 1025
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1157
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 11
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 94
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.295
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