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αἰθὴρ δ᾽ ἐλαφραῖς πτερύγων ῥιπαῖς ὑποσυρίζει (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 126) → The bright air fanned | whistles and shrills with rapid beat of wings.
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English (LSJ)
[ῠ], ῶν, αἱ, Caryae, a place in Laconia with a famous temple of Artemis, Th.5.55, etc.:—hence Κᾰρῠᾶτις, ιδος, ἡ, μέλισσα (prob. priestess of Artemis) St.Byz.; as Subst. esp. 1 Artemis, Paus.3.10.7. 2 dance in honour of Artemis, Poll.4.104; cf. καρυατίζω 2. II Κᾰρῠάτῐδες, ων, αἱ, priestesses of Artemis at Caryae, Pratin.Lyr.4. 2 Archit., female figures used as bearing-shafts, Lync. ap. Ath.6.241e, Vitr.1.1.5. 3 a kind of ear-rings, Poll.5.97.
