αἶα
Μεγάλοι δὲ λόγοι μεγάλας πληγὰς τῶν ὑπεραύχων ἀποτίσαντες γήρᾳ τὸ φρονεῖν ἐδίδαξαν → The great words of the arrogant pay the penalty by suffering great blows, and teach one to reason in old age
English (LSJ)
(A), ἡ, Ep. form used for γαῖα metri gr.,
A φυσίζοος αἶα Il.3.243, etc., cf. Emp.27, Scol.12, A.R.1.580, Tab.Defix.7; also in Trag., chiefly in lyr., A.Pers.59, S.El.95, also in trim., E.Andr.51: never in pl. II Αἶα, ἡ, orig. name of Colchis, S.Fr.914: also part of Thessaly, ib.915.
αἶα (B) ὑπὸ Κυρηναίων τηθὶς καὶ μαῖα, καὶ ἀδελφὴ Κρήτης· καὶ φυτόν τι. ἔτι δὲ ὁ καρπὸς αὐτῷ ὁμώνυμος, EM27.24. (Possibly cogn. with Lat.
A avia.)
αἶα (C),
A = ὄα, Ael.Dion.Fr.16.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
αἶα: ἡ, Ἐπ. τύπος ἀντὶ τοῦ γαῖα, χάριν τοῦ μέτρου, Ὅμ. καὶ παρὰ Τραγ., ἰδίως ἐν λυρ. χωρίοις: οὐδέποτε κατὰ πληθ. ΙΙ. Αἶα, ἡ, τὸ ἀρχαῖον ὄνομα τῆς Κολχίδος, Σοφ. Ἀποσπ. 774: ὡσαύτως μέρος τῆς Θεσσαλίας, αὐτόθι.
