ἄγγελος

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.