EOLIA -- la corte di EOLO, re dei venti

Speranza

αἰόλος , η, ον, (ος, ον Arist.Pr., v. infr.)

A.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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Αἴολος , ου, ὁ, the lord of the winds, properly

the Rapid or the Changeable, Od., etc.

 

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

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