ἀρά
νύκτα οὖν ἡμέραν ποιούμενος → without delay, as soon as possible, as fast as possible, making the night day, making night into day, turning night into day
English (LSJ)
Ion. ἀρή, ἡ,
A prayer, Il.15.378,598, 23.199, Hes.Op.726, Pi.I. 6(5).43; ἀρὴν ἐποιήσαντο παῖδα γενέσθαι Ἀρίστωνι offered prayers that a child should be born, Hdt.6.63. 2 vow, Inscr.Cypr.83, 147H. 3 curse, imprecation, ἐξ ἀρέων μητρὸς . . ἥ ῥα θεοῖσι πόλλ' ἀχέουσ' ἠρᾶτο Il.9.566; freq. in Trag., mostly in pl., A.Pr.910, S.OT 295; ἀρὰς ἀρᾶσθαι,προστιθέναι, ἐξανιέναι, E.Ph.67, S.OC952,154(lyr.), 1375; ἐπεύχεσθαι Pl.Criti.119e; θέσθαι ἐπί τινας Plu.Cam.13: also in sg., πατρὸς δ' ἀ. κρανθήσεται A.Pr.910, cf. Ag.457 (lyr.), etc.; ἡ τοῦ νόμου ἀ. Pl.Lg.871b; ἀρᾷ . . ἔνοχος ἔστω ib.742b, etc.: in pl., imprecations, freq. in Inscrr. on those who shall mutilate or remove them, Inscr.Magn.105.53 (ii B. C.), IG3.1417 sqq. II Ἀρά personified as the goddess of destruction and revenge, ὦ πότνι' Ἀρὰ σεμναί τε θεῶν παῖδες Ἐρινύες S.El.III; δεινόπους Ἀρά Id.OT418; but in A.Eu.417 the Erinyes say that Ἀραί is their own name γῆς ὑπαί; Ἀρά τ' Ἐρινὺς πατρὸς ἡ μεγασθενής Id.Th.70; Ἀρᾶς ἱερόν Ar.Fr.575. (Hence the Verb ἀράομαι.) [Ep. always ᾱρ, Att. always ᾰρ.] (From ἀρϝᾱ, cf. κάταρ ϝος.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 343] ἡ, Gebet, Flehen, Il. 15, 378. 23, 199 Od. 4, 767; ἐξαίσιον ἀρήν Iliad. 15, 598; Pind. I. 5, 40; Verwünschung, Fluch, ἐξ ἀρέων μητρὸς κεχολωμένος Iliad. 9, 566; εἰ γὰρ ἐπ' ἀρῇσιν τέλος ἡμετέρῃσι γένοιτο· οὐκ ἄν τις τούτων γε ἐύθρονον ἠῶ ἵκοιτο Od. 17, 496; ἀρὴν ἀμύνειν, das Verderben abwehren, Iliad. 12, 334. 16, 512. 24, 489 Od. 2, 59. 17, 538. 22, 208; ἀρῆς ἀλκτῆρα γενέσθαι Iliad. 18, 100; – Verwünschung, Fluch, gew. Tragg., die Ἀρά auch personificirt zu einer Rachegöttin machen, Soph. El. 111; θεῶν ἀρά, der Götter Rache, Tr. 1299; – ἀρὴν ποιεῖσθαι beten Her. 6, 63; verfluchen Pol. 9, 40, 6; μεγάλας ἀρὰς ἐπεύχεσθαί τινι Plat. Critia 119 e, u. sonst, im bösen Sinne. Das erste α ist kurz, bei Ep. in der Vershebung lang.
