αἰών: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=poet.: apocop. acc. αἰῶ] [[properly]] αἰϝών, [[aevum]], v. [[αἰεί]])]<br />a [[period]] of [[existence]]:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> one's [[life]]-[[time]], [[life]], Hom. and [[attic]] Poets.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> an age, [[generation]], Aesch.; ὁ μέλλων [[αἰών]] [[posterity]], Dem.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[long]] [[space]] of [[time]], an age, ἀπ' αἰῶνος of old, for ages, Hes., NTest.; τὸν δι' αἰῶνος χρόνον for [[ever]], Aesch.; ἅπαντα τὸν αἰ. Lycurg.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> a [[definite]] [[space]] of [[time]], an era, [[epoch]], age, [[period]], ὁ αἰὼν [[οὗτος]] [[this]] [[present]] [[world]], opp. to ὁ μέλλων, NTest.:—[[hence]] its [[usage]] in plural, εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας for [[ever]], NTest.