χειμέριος
τὰ πρὸ Εὐκλείδου ἐξετάζειν → investigate what happened before the flood, investigate what happened in the distant past, investigate what happened before Euclid, investigate what happened before the year of Euclid
English (LSJ)
α, ον, Il.2.294, Pi.O.6.100; also ος, ον S.Ph.1194 (lyr.), Th.3.22:—
A wintry, stormy, ἄελλαι Il. l.c.; νιφάδες 3.222: ὕδωρ 23.420; ὄμβρος Hes.Sc.478, Pi.P.6.10, E.Hel.1481 (lyr., nowhere else in E., never in A.); νότος S. Ant.335 (lyr.); ἄνεμοι Democr.14; ὥρη χειμερίη the wintry or stormy season, Od.5.485, Hes.Op.494; ἦμαρ χ. Il.12.279, Hes.Op.524, 565 (pl.); νύξ Emp.84.2, Pi.O.6.100; νὺξ χ. ὕδατι καὶ ἀνέμῳ Th. l.c.; χ. πῦρ Pi.P.4.266; οἱ χειμεριώτατοι μῆνες the most wintry months, Hdt.2.68; τὰς χειμεριωτάτας [ἡμέρας] Arist.HA599a24; so χ. κατὰ μῆνα Simon.12; ἦρ χ. a stormy, cold spring, Hp.Aër.10; ἀκτὰ κυματοπλὴξ χειμερία a shore stricken by the wintry waves, S.OC1241 (lyr.); neut. pl. as Adv., χειμέρια βροντᾷ Ar.Fr.46; ἐν χειμερίοις in cold places, opp. to ἐν ἀλεεινοῖς, Arist.HA613b2; ἐὰν ἴδωσι . . χειμέρια stormy weather, ib.614b21; χ. αἱ σύνοδοι τῶν μηνῶν μᾶλλον ἢ αἱ μεσότητες Id.GA738a21. Adv. ίως in wintry fashion, Hp.Epid.4.7. 2 metaph., χ. λύπα raging pain, S.Ph.1194 (lyr.); χ. τὰ πράγματα, punningly, Ar.Ach.1141.—Correct writers use χειμέριος = wintry, stormy, χειμερινός (opp. θερινός) = in winter-time, in the winter season, but later authors neglected this distinction, χειμερίῃσι (sc. ὥραις) Nic.Al.623; χειμέριοι τροπαί App.BC2.48, 52.
