ἔριον
English (LSJ)
τό, Ion. εἴριον GDIiv p.876 (Chios, iv B. C., also written ἔρια ibid.), Hdt., Hp., and always in Hom. (indicating ἐρϝ-) exc. gen. ἐρίοιο in Od.4.124:—
A wool, Il.12.434, Od.l.c., Pl.Smp.175d ; ἐρίῳ στέψαντες, i.e. with woollen fillets, Id.R.398a, etc.: freq. in pl., Il. 3.388, Od.18.316 ; εἴρια ῥυπαρά, ἔρια οἰσυπηρά, greasy wool, Hp. Fract.21, Dsc.2.74 ; ἔρια καθαρά PCair.Zen.12.62 (iii B. C.); τἄρια, crasis for τὰ ἔ., Ar.Ra.1387 ; οὖλα ἔρια ib.1067 ; ἔ. πεπταμένα outspread flocks of wool, Id.Nu.343 ; ἐρίων τάλαντον Id.V.1147 ; τὰ Μιλήσια ἔ. Eub.90.3, cf. Amphis 27.1 ; εἴρια ἀπὸ ξύλου cotton, Hdt.3. 47, cf. 106 ; τὸ ἔ. [τῆς ἀράχνης] a spider's web, Philostr.Im.2.28 ; τὰ ἐκ τῆς θαλάττης ἔ., of the byssus of the pinna, Alciphr.1.2. (ἔρια Schwyzer 180 (Crete) without initial ϝ-; Lat. vervex perh. not cogn.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 1030] τό, ion. u. ep. εἴριον (eigtl. dim. von ἔρος, εἶρος), die Wolle, Od. 4, 124; Hippocr.; Ar. Vesp. 701; Plat. Conv. 175 d u. Folgde; häufiger im plur., Ar. Vesp. 1147, u. in Prosa; – εἴρια τὰ ἀπὸ ξύλων, Baumwolle, Her. 3, 47. 106; Theophr.; – ἔρια ἐκ τῆς θαλάττης, von der Seide der Pinne, Alciphr. 1, 2; τῆς ἀράχνης, Philostr. imag. 2, 28.