αἰόλος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[deriv. uncertain].] [The penult. is lengthd. in the gen. Αἰόλου μεγαλήτορος, metri grat., Od.]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[quick]]-[[moving]], Il.; αἰόλαι εὐλαί wriggling worms, Il.; so of wasps and serpents, Il.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[changeful]] of hue, [[gleaming]], [[glancing]], of [[arms]] and [[armour]], Il.; (but [[here]] also it may be explained [[moving]] with the [[body]], [[manageable]], Lat. [[habilis]]);— also, αἰόλα νύξ [[star]]-[[spangled]] [[night]], Soph.; Aesch. calls [[smoke]] [[flushed]] by [[fire]]-[[light]] αἰόλη πυρὸς [[κάσις]]; αἰόλα [[σάρξ]] discoloured from [[disease]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> metaph.,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[changeful]], [[shifting]], [[varied]], κάκα Aesch.; of sounds, [[ἰαχή]] Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[shifty]], [[wily]], [[slippery]], [[ψεῦδος]] Pind.<br />B. as [[prop]]. n., proparox. [[Αἴολος]], ου, ὁ, [[lord]] of the winds, [[properly]] the [[rapid]] or the [[changeable]], Od.