ἄορ

aor

hanger

Appears 23 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ἄορ or ἆορ, ἄορος, τό (on the accent see Hdn.Gr.1.391): (ἀείρω):— properly, A. hanger or sword hung in a belt (cf. ἀορτήρ), Od. 11.24; synon. with ξίφος, 10.294, cf. 321.—The masc. acc. pl., οὐκ ἄορας οὐδὲ λέβητας 17.222 (cf. Hsch.), is prob. f.l. for ἄορά γʼ; Eust. 1818.5 and the Scholl. ad loc. expl. ἄορας as = ὄαρας, women given as prizes (cf. ἀόρων· γυναικῶν, Hsch.), or = τρίποδας. 2. later, any weapon, ἄορ τριγλώχιν the trident, Call. Del. 31; of the horn of the rhinoceros, Opp. C. 2.553. [Hom. has in dissyll. forms, as also Hes. Sc. 457, Call. Hec. 1.1.1; in the trisyll. forms, Od. 17.222, al., Il. 10.484, al. In Hes. Sc. 221, and later Poets, even in ἄορ, which must then be written ἆορ. Hes. Th. 283 has ἄορ as monosyll., unless we read with Tricl. γένθʼ, ὁ δʼ ἄορ χρύσειον . . .]
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