ἀήρ

ἀήρ, ἀέρος, Hom. ἀήρ, ἠέρος; Ion. nom. ἠήρ Hp. Aër. 6, al., Aret. CA 2.3; Aeol. αὐήρ Sch.Pi. P. 2.52; Dor. ἀβήρ (i.e. ἀϝήρ) Hsch.:— fem. in Hom. and Hes. (exc. Op. 549), Anaxag. ap. Thphr. Sens. 30; from Hdt. downwds. masc. (Il. 5.776, 8.50, h.Cer. 383 cannot be quoted for the masc. usage, since there πουλύς and βαθύς need not be masc.):—A. in Hom. and Hes. always mist, haze, not (as Aristarch.) lower air (opp. αἰθήρ, q.v.); [ἐλάτη] μακροτάτη πεφυυῖα διʼ ἠέρος αἰθέρʼ ἵκανεν Il. 14.288, cf. Anaxag. 1, Ar. Nu. 264sq.; περὶ δʼ ἠέρα πουλὺν ἔχευεν Il. 5.776, cf. 3.381, 8.50; ἠέρα μὲν σκέδας εν καὶ ἀπῶσεν ὀμί χλην 17.649; τρὶς δʼ ἠέρα τύψε βαθεῖαν 20.446; rare in Prose, Hp. l.c. 2. later, generally, air, Anaxim.1, Emp. 17.18, S. El. 87, Ar. Av. 187,694, etc.; πρὸς τὸν ἀέρα διατρίβειν in the open air, Ar. Nu. 198, cf.Teles p.11.3 H., Luc. Anach. 24; τὸν ἀέρʼ ἕλκειν καθαρόν Philyll. 20, cf. Philem. 119; ἔσπασας τὸν ἀ. τὸν κοινόν Men. 531.7; ἀέρα δέρειν 1 Ep.Cor. 9.26; εἰς ἀέρᾳ λαλεῖν ib.14.9:—in pl., Pl. Phd. 98c, 98d; climates, Hp. Aër. tit., cf. Men.Rh.p.383 S.; of mephitic exhalations, Str. 5.4.5. 3. personified, ὦ δέσποτʼ ἄναξ ἀμέτρητʼ Ἀ. Ar. Nu. 264; Ἀ. ὃν ἄν τις ὀνομάσειε καὶ Δία Philem. 91.4, cf. Diph. 126.6. II. hot-air room in baths, Gal. 11.14. 2. volume, Hero Stereom. 57,al. III. a pigment, sky-blue or grey, Id. Aut. 28.3. [ᾱ, except in Arist. Fr. 642, Ps.-Phoc.[108].]