αἰόλος

English (LSJ)

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. 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.