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|Definition=ωνος, ὁ, ἡ, (τρέω) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[timorous]], [[shy]], in Hom. always [[epithet]] of doves (i. e. of [[περιστεραί]], the genus of which [[πέλειαι]] are a species, acc. to <span class="bibl">Eust.1262.61</span>), τρήρωσι πελειάσιν <span class="bibl">Il.5.778</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Ap.</span>114</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Av.</span>575</span>; πέλειαι τρήρωνες <span class="bibl">Od.12.63</span>; τρήρωνα πέλειαν <span class="bibl">Il.22.140</span>, <span class="bibl">23.853</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.R.3.541</span>; κέπφοι τ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span> 1067</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> fem. Subst. [[trembler]], = [[περιστερά]] (metaph. of women), Lyc.87,423. (Since the Subst. is implied for Hom. in [[πολυτρήρων]], [[τ]]. is perh. always a Subst., name of the genus, and <b class="b3">τ. πελειάδες</b> is to be compared with <b class="b3">ἴρηξ κίρκος, σῦς κάπρος</b>, etc.)</span>