αὖος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=η, ον, Att. αὖος, α, ον, also ος, ον <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>860a28</span>, <span class="bibl">Philostr. <span class="title">VS</span>1.21.1</span>:—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[dry]], ξύλον [[a pole]], <span class="bibl">Il.23.327</span>; <b class="b3">αὖα παλαί, περίκηλα</b>, of timber, <span class="bibl">Od.5.240</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>761c</span>; <b class="b3">αὔην καὶ διερὴν ἀρόων</b> (sc. [[γῆν]]) <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>460</span>; <b class="b3">βόας αὔας</b> shields of ox-hide, <span class="bibl">Il.12.137</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">17.493</span>; so, of hippopotamus' hide, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.71</span>; τρύφος ἄρτου [[stale]], AP6.105 (Apollonid.); [[withered]], στέφανος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>534</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of sound, <b class="b3">αὖον ἀϋτεῖν</b> or [[αὔειν]] give [[a dry]], [[rasping]] sound, κόρυθες δ' ἀμφ' αὖον ἀΰτευν <span class="bibl">Il.12.160</span>; <b class="b3">αὖον ἄϋσεν [θώρηξ</b>] <span class="bibl">13.441</span>; <b class="b3">αὖον δέ μοι οἶκος ἀϋτεῖ</b> prob. in Epic. <span class="title">Oxy.</span> 1794.8. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">αὖον ἀπὸ χλωροῦ τάμνειν</b>, i. e. to cut the nail from the quick, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>743</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[drained dry]], [[exhausted]], <span class="bibl">Alex.158</span>, <span class="bibl">Theoc.8.48</span> (Comp.), prob. in <span class="bibl">Ant.Lib.24.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[thirsty]], δίψῃ αὔη <span class="title">IG</span>14.638 (Petelia), cf. <span class="title">GDI</span>4959a (Eleutherna), <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Luct.</span>8</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> [[trembling]], [[shivering]] (like a dry leaf), of the aged, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>385</span>; esp. of fear, αὖός εἰμι τῷ δέει <span class="bibl">Men.<span class="title">Epit.</span>480</span>, cf.<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pk.</span>163</span>, <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">BJ</span>1.19.5</span>: abs., ib.<span class="bibl">6.4.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Hld.1.12</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">7</span> metaph., 'stony broke', [[without money]], <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Tox.</span> 16</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">DMeretr.</span>14.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Alciphr.3.70</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">8</span> of lit. style, [[dry]], ἰδέα λόγων <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VS</span>1.20.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">9</span> <b class="b3">αὔη ψυχὴ σοφωτάτη</b> dub. in <span class="bibl">Heraclit.118</span>. (Cf. Lith. [[sauũsas]] 'dry', OE. [[séar]].) </span>