αἰόλος

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. [full] Αἴολος, ου, ὁ, 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.