αἰόλος

aiolos

quick-moving, nimble

Appears 8 times across Homer's epics.

Frequency by work

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Iliad 7
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Book 5 1
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5295
Book 7 1
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7222
Book 12 2
Chapter ?

12167
12208
Book 16 1
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16107
Book 19 1
Chapter ?

19404
Book 22 1
Chapter ?

22509
Odyssey 1
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Book 22 1
Chapter ?

22300

Dictionary (LSJ)

αἰόλος, η, ον, (ος, ον Arist. Pr., v. infr.)

quick-moving, nimble, πόδας αἰόλος ἵππος Il. 19.404; αἰόλαι εὐλαί wriggling worms, 22.509; σφῆκες μέσον αἰ. 12.167; ὄφις ib. 208; οἶστρος Od. 22.300, cf. Achae. 48.

2. as epith. of armour, glittering, τεύχεα Il. 5.295; σάκος 7.222, 16.107; κνώδων S. Aj. 1025:—generally, changeful of hue, sheeny, δράκων Id. Tr. 11; αἰόλα νύξ star-spangled night, ib. 94 (lyr.); αἰ. πυρὸς κάσις smoke flushed by fire-light, A. Th. 494; κύων αἰ. speckled, Call. Dian. 91, etc.; αἰόλα σάρξ discoloured, S. Ph. 1157 (lyr.); ὀφθαλμοί Adam. 1.8, cf. 11.

II. metaph.,

1. chequered, αἰόλʼ ἀνθρώπων κακά A. Supp. 328; changeful, ἰαχή E. Ion 499 (lyr.); χορεία Ar. Ra. 248 (lyr.); νόμος Telest. 2; αἰόλα φωνέων Theoc. 16.44; αἰόλοι ἡμέραι changeable days, Arist. Pr. 941b24.

2. shifty, slippery, ἔπος Sol. 11.7; ψεῦδος Pi. N. 8.25; κέρδεσσι B. 14.57; μηχάνημα λυγκὸς αἰολώτερον Trag.Adesp. 349.—Chiefly poet.

B. proparox. Αἴολος, ου, ὁ, the lord of the winds, properly the Rapid or the Changeable, Od., etc.

2. name of a kind of σκάρος, Nic. Thyat. ap. Ath. 7.320c.

3. Pythag., = 4, or ἐνιαυτός, Theol.Ar. 22.

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