1. αἰόλος · aiolos — Beekes
The corpus record
αἰόλος
aiolos
agile, glittering, variegated
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Where it lives
- Trachiniae 4 · 5.5/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
- Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
- Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
- Iliad 7 · 0.63/10k
- Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
What it meant
2. αἰόλος · aiolos — Chantraine
3. Αἴολος · Aiolos — Chantraine
4. Αἰόλος · Aiolos — Chantraine
5. αἰόλος · aiolos — Frisk
6. αἰόλος · aiolos — Frisk
7. αἰόλος · aiolos — Frisk
8. αἰόλος · aiolos — LSJ
quick-moving, nimble, πόδας αἰόλος ἵππος Il. 19.404; αἰόλαι εὐλαί wriggling worms, 22.509; σφῆκες μέσον αἰ. 12.167; ὄφις ib. 208; οἶστρος Od. 22.300, cf. Achae. 48.
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.
metaph.,
chequered, αἰόλʼ ἀνθρώπων κακά A. Supp. 328; changeful, ἰαχή E. Ion 499 (lyr.); χορεία Ar. Ra. 248 (lyr.); νόμος Telest. 2; αἰόλα φωνέων Theoc. 16.44; αἰόλοι ἡμέραι changeable days, Arist. Pr. 941b24.
shifty, slippery, ἔπος Sol. 11.7; ψεῦδος Pi. N. 8.25; κέρδεσσι B. 14.57; μηχάνημα λυγκὸς αἰολώτερον Trag.Adesp. 349.—Chiefly poet.
proparox. Αἴολος, ου, ὁ, the lord of the winds, properly the Rapid or the Changeable, Od., etc.
name of a kind of σκάρος, Nic. Thyat. ap. Ath. 7.320c.
Pythag., = 4, or ἐνιαυτός, Theol.Ar. 22.
In the wild
- αἰόλην · aiolēn Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 491–494
- αἰόλʼ · aiolʼ Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 328
- αἰόλας · aiolas Euripides, Ion (DIORISIS sentence 309)
- αἰόλον · aiolon Theogony 295–300
- αἰόλοι · aioloi Iliad 12.167
- αἰόλον · aiolon Iliad 12.208
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. αἰόλος (scan p. 88; entry #234).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. αἰόλος (scan p. 51; entry #235).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. αἰόλος (scan p. 72; entry #220).
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