ἀήρ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[[ἀέρος]], Hom. [[ἀήρ]], [[ἠέρος]]; Ion. nom. [[ἠήρ]] Hp.<br><span class="bld">A</span> Aër.6,al., Aret. CA2.3; Aeol. [[αὐήρ]] Sch.Pi.P.2.52; Dor. [[ἀβήρ]] (i.e. ἀϝήρ) Hsch.:— fem. in Hom. and Hes. (exc. Op.549), Anaxag. ap. Thphr.Sens.30; from Hdt downwds. masc. (Il.5.776, 8.50, h.Cer.383 cannot be quoted for the masc. usage, since there [[πουλύς]] and [[βαθύς]] need not be masc.):—in Hom. and Hes. always [[mist]], [[haze]], not (as Aristarch.) [[lower]] [[air]] (opp. [[αἰθήρ]], [[quod vide|q.v.]]); [ἐλάτη] μακροτάτη πεφυυῖα δι' ἠέρος αἰθέρ' ἵκανεν Il.14.288, cf. Anaxag.1, Ar.Nu.264sq.; περὶ δ' ἠέρα πουλὺν ἔχευεν Il.5.776, cf. 3.381, 8.50; ἠέρα μὲν σκέδας εν καὶ ἀπῶσεν ὀμί χλην 17.649; τρὶς δ' ἠέρα τύψε βαθεῖαν 20.446; rare in Prose, Hp. [[l.c.]]<br><span class="bld">2</span> later, generally, [[air]], Anaxim.1, Emp.17.18, S.El.87, Ar. Av.187,694, etc.; πρὸς τὸν ἀέρα [[διατρίβειν]] in the [[open]] [[air]], Ar.Nu.198, cf.Teles p.11.3 H., Luc.Anach.24; τὸν ἀέρ' ἕλκειν καθαρόν Philyll.20, cf. Philem.119; ἔσπασας τὸν ἀ. τὸν κοινόν Men.531.7; ἀέρα [[δέρειν]] 1 Ep.Cor.9.26; εἰς ἀέρᾳ [[λαλεῖν]] ib.14.9:—in pl., Pl.Phd.98c, 98d; [[climate]]s, Hp.Aër. tit., cf. Men.Rh.p.383 S.; of [[mephitic]] [[exhalation]]s, Str.5.4.5.<br><span class="bld">3</span> personified, ὦ δέσποτ' [[ἄναξ]] ἀμέτρητ' Ἀ. Ar.Nu.264; Ἀ. ὃν ἄν τις ὀνομάσειε καὶ Δία Philem.91.4, cf. Diph.126.6.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[hot-air room]] in [[bath]]s, Gal.11.14.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[volume]], Hero ''*Stereom''.57,al.<br><span class="bld">III</span> a [[pigment]], [[sky-blue]] or [[grey]], Id.Aut.28.3. [ᾱ, except in Arist.Fr. 642, Ps.-Phoc.[108].]