ἔαρ

ἔαρ (A), τό, Hom. (only gen. ἔαρος), etc.; contr. ἦρ Alcm. 76: gen., dat., ἦρος, ἦρι, Lyr. (Alc. 45), Att., and prob. Ion., cf. Hdt. 1.77, Hp. Epid. 1.1 (but ἔαρος is found in codd. of Hdt. 5.31, 7.162, al., Hp.l.c.): poet. gen., dat., εἴαρος, εἴαρι (metri gr.), Alcm. 26, h.Cer. 174 (nisi leg. ἤαρος), and later Poets (whence was formed late nom. εἶαρ Numen. ap.Ath. 9.371e, Ter.Maur. 653); cf. Hdn.Gr.1.408 (Hes. used ἔαρ as a monos., and ἔαρι as a trochee, Op. 492,462):—Α. spring, ἔαρος δʼ ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρῃ Il. 6.148; ἔαρος νέον ἱσταμένοιο early spring, Od. 19.519; ἔαρι πολεῖν Hes. Op. 462; ἅμα τῷ ἔαρι at the beginning of spring, Hdt. 5.31, cf. Th. 4.117, 6.8; πρὸς ἔαρ Id. 5.56, etc.; πρὸς τὸ ἔ. ib.17; περὶ τὸ ἔ. Id. 3.116; ἐξ ἦρος εἰς Ἀρκτοῦρον S. OT 1137: prov., μία χελιδὼν ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ Cratin. 33; also of the prime, flower of anything, ἔφηβοι . . ἔ. τοῦ δήμου Demad. Fr. 4S., cf. Hdt. 7.162, Arist. Rh. 1411a3; ἔ. ὁρόωσα looking fresh and bright, Theoc. 13.45; γενύων ἔ. the first down on a youthʼs face, AP 6.242 (Crin.); ὕμνων ἔ. the freshest, brightest of their kind, ib.7.12; τὸ ἔ. τῶν πτερῶν, of a peacock, Luc. Dom. 11. (ϝεςṛ-, cf. γέαρ, γίαρ[ες], Lat. vēr, Skt. vasantas, Lith. vasara ‘summer’.)