ἀήρ

ἀήρ, ἀέρος, Hom. ἀήρ, ἠέρος; [dialect] Ion. nom. [full] ἠήρ Hp.

A Aër.6,al., Aret. CA2.3; [dialect] Aeol. [full] αὐήρ Sch.Pi.P.2.52; [dialect] Dor. [full] ἀβήρ (i.e. ἀϜήρ) Hsch.:— fem. in Hom. and Hes. (exc. Op.549), Anaxag. ap. Thphr.Sens.30; from Hdt downwds. masc. (Il.5.776, 8.50, h.Cer.383 cannot be quoted for the masc. usage, since there πουλύς and βαθύς need not be masc.):—in Hom. and Hes. always mist, haze, not (as Aristarch.) lower air (opp. αἰθήρ, q.v.);

[ἐλάτη] μακροτάτη πεφυυῖα δι' ἠέρος αἰθέρ' ἵκανεν Il.14.288

, cf. Anaxag.1, Ar.Nu.264sq.;

περὶ δ' ἠέρα πουλὺν ἔχευεν Il.5.776

, cf. 3.381, 8.50;

ἠέρα μὲν σκέδας εν καὶ ἀπῶσεν ὀμί χλην 17.649

;

τρὶς δ' ἠέρα τύψε βαθεῖαν 20.446

; rare in Prose, Hp. l.c.

2 later, generally, air, Anaxim.1, Emp.17.18, S.El.87, Ar. Av.187,694, etc.; πρὸς τὸν ἀέρα διατρίβειν in the open air, Ar.Nu.198, cf.Teles p.11.3 H., Luc.Anach.24;

τὸν ἀέρ' ἕλκειν καθαρόν Philyll.20

, cf. Philem.119;

ἔσπασας τὸν ἀ. τὸν κοινόν Men.531.7

;

ἀέρα δέρειν 1 Ep.Cor.9.26

; εἰς ἀέρᾳ λαλεῖν ib.14.9:—in pl., Pl.Phd.98c, 98d; climates, Hp.Aër. tit., cf. Men.Rh.p.383 S.; of mephitic exhalations, Str.5.4.5.

3 personified,

ὦ δέσποτ' ἄναξ ἀμέτ ρητ' Ἀ. Ar.Nu.264

;

Ἀ. ὃν ἄν τις ὀνομάσειε καὶ Δία Philem.91.4

, cf. Diph.126.6.

II hot-air room in baths, Gal.11.14.

2 volume, Hero *Stereom.57,al.

III a pigment, sky-blue or grey, Id.Aut.28.3. [[pron. full] ᾱ, except in Arist.Fr. 642, Ps.-Phoc.[108].]