ἄγγελος
φύγωμεν οὖν τὴν συνήθειαν ... ἄγχει τὸν ἄνθρωπον, τῆς ἀληθείας ἀποτρέπει → so let's stay away from the habitual ... it strangles us, turns us away from the truth
English (LSJ)
ὁ, ἡ,
A messenger, envoy, Il.2.26, etc.; δι' ἀγγέλων ὁμιλέειν τινί Hdt.5.92.ζ, cf. SIG229.25 (Erythrae):— prov., Ἀράβιος ἄ., of a loquacious person, Men.32. 2 generally, one that announces or tells, e.g. of birds of augury, Il.24.292,296; Μουσῶν ἄγγελος, of a poet, Thgn.769; ἄγγελε ἔαρος . . χελιδοῖ Simon.74; ἄ. ἄφθογγος, of a beacon, Thgn.549; of the nightingale, ὄρνις . . Διὸς ἄ. S.El.149: c. gen. rei, ἄ. κακῶν ἐμῶν Id.Ant.277; ἄγγελον γλῶσσαν λόγων E.Supp.203; αἴσθησις ἡμῖν ἄ. Plot.5.3.3; neut. pl., ἄγγελα νίκης Nonn.D.34.226. 3 angel, LXX Ge.28.12, al., Ev.Matt.1.24, al., Ph.2.604, etc. 4 in later philos., semi-divine being, ἡλιακοὶ ἄ. Jul.Or.4.141b, cf. Iamb.Myst.2.6, Procl. in R.2.243 K.; ἄ. καὶ ἀρχάγγελοι Theol.Ar.43.10, cf. Dam.Pr.183, al.: also in mystical and magical writings, Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.45, PMag.Lond.46.121, etc. II title of Artemis at Syracuse, Hsch.
German (Pape)
[Seite 10] ὁ, auch fem. von der Iris, Il. 2, 786 und öfter, 1) der Bote, Gesandte, oft bei Hom. u. Tragg. und in Prosa, bes. oft πέμπειν, ἐλθεῖν. Auch Vögel, deren Flug vorbedeutend war, Il. 24, 292. 296; übrtr. λευκαὶ ἔθειραι συνετῆς ἄγγελοι ἡλικίης Philod. 14 (XI, 41); vgl. Leon. Tar. 41 (Plan. 182). – 2) die Botschaft, die Benachrichtigung, Pol. 1, 72, 4. – 3) im N. T. u. K. S. Engel.
