αἴξ

αἴξ, αἰγός, ὁ, ἡ: dat. pl. αἴγεσιν Il. 10.486, αἴγεσσιν Choerob. in Theod. 323; also Boeot. ἤγυς, = αἴγοις, IG 7.3171:—A. goat, mostly fem., μηκάδας αἶγας Od. 9.124; λεύκας αἶγος Sapph. 7(s.v.l.), cf. Ar. Nu. 71, Pl. Lg. 639a, etc., but masc. in Od. 14.106,530; also τῶν αἰγῶν τῶν τραγῶν Hdt. 3.112:—once in Trag., S. Fr. 793 (anap.). 2. αἲξ ἄγριος wild goat, prob. ibex (cf. αἴγαγρος) , ἰονθάς Od. 14.50; ἴξαλος Il. 4.105; αἶγες ὀρεσκῷοι Od. 9.155; ἀγρότεραι 17.295:—proverbs, αἲξ οὐρανία in Com. as a source of mysterious and suspected wealth, in allusion to the horn of Amalthea, Cratin. 244; οὐράνιον αἶγα πλουτοφόρον Com.Adesp. 8; αἲξ τὴν μάχαιραν (sc. ηὗρε), of those who ‘ask for trouble’, Zen. 1.27; αἲξ οὔπω τέτοκεν ‘donʼt count your chickens before they are hatched’, 1.42; αἲξ Σκυρία· ἐπὶ τῶν τὰς εὐεργεσίας ἀνατρεπόντων· ἀνατρέπει γὰρ τὸ ἀγγεῖον ἀμελχθεῖσα Diogenian. 2.33; αἲξ ἐς θάλασσαν· ἀτενὲς ὁρᾷς, ἐπὶ τῶν φιληδούντων 3.8; κἂν αἲξ δάκῃ ἄνδρα πονηρόν 5.87; οὐ δύναμαι τὴν αἶγα φέρειν, ἐπί μοι θέτε τὸν βοῦν Plu. 2.830a; ἐλεύθεραι αἶγες ἀρότρων· ἐπὶ τῶν βάρους τινὸς ἀπηλλαγμένων Zen. 3.69; κατʼ αἶγας ἀγρίας, = ἐς κόρακας, Hsch., Diogenian. 5.49; νοῦσος, αἶγας ἐς ἀγριάδας τὴν ἀποπεμπόμεθα Call. Aet. 3.1.13; αἰγῶν ὀνόματα, of worthless objects, Suid. 3. the star Capella, Arat. 157. II. a water-bird, apparently of the goose kind, Arist. HA 593b23. III. fiery meteor, Arist. Mete. 341b3. IV. in pl., waves, Artem. 2.12. (Att. αἶξ, acc. to Hdn.Gr.1.937.)