The corpus record

αἰθέριος

aitherios

of, the upper air, high in air, on high

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Where it lives

De Mundo 3 · 4.73/10k
Birds 4 · 3.75/10k
Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

αἰθέριος · aitherios — LSJ

of, the upper air

of αἰθήρ or the upper air, hence,

1 high in air, on high, into the air

high in air, on high, A. Pr. 158 (anap.), Th. 81, S. OC 1082, etc.; αἰθερία ἀνέπτα flew up into the air, E. Med. 440, cf. Andr. 830; αἰ. γῆ, of the moon, Pythag. ap. Simp. in Cael. 511.26: epith. of Zeus, Arist. Mu. 401a17.

2 ethereal, heavenly

ethereal, heavenly, φύσις Parm. 10.1; οἱ αἰ. Hierocl. in CA 27 P. 484M.; γονή E. Fr. l.c. Adv. -ίως Iamb. Myst. 1.9.—Trag. only in lyr.

In the wild

αἰθέριον · aitherion Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 158–159
αἰθερία · aitheria Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 81–82
αἰθέριον · aitherion Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 950)
αἰθερίοις · aitheriois Aristophanes, Birds 685 (DIORISIS sentence 552)
αἰθέριον · aitherion Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 310)
αἰθέριον · aitherion Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 589)

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Where it came from

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