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. ), is prob. f.l. for ἄορά γʼ; 1818.5 and the Scholl. ad loc. expl. ἄορας as = ὄαρας, women given as prizes (cf. ἀόρων· γυναικῶν, ), or = τρίποδας. 2. later, any weapon, ἄορ τριγλώχιν the trident, Del. 31; of the horn of the rhinoceros, C. 2.553. [ has ᾰ in dissyll. forms, as also Sc. 457, Hec. 1.1.1; in the trisyll. forms, ᾰ Od. 17.222, al., ᾱ Il. 10.484, al. In Sc. 221, and later Poets, ᾱ even in ἄορ, which must then be written ἆορ. Th. 283 has ἄορ as monosyll., unless we read with Tricl. γένθʼ, ὁ δʼ ἄορ χρύσειον . . .]
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