Plato Greek Lexicon ἄνεμος

ἄνεμος

anemos

wind

Appears 12 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ἄνεμος [ᾰ], , A. wind, πέτετο πνοιῇ ἀνέμοιο Il. 12.207; ἀνέμων ἀτάλαντοι ἀέλλῃ 13.795; ὦρσεν . . ἀνέμοιο θύελλαν 12.253; ἀνέμοιο . . δεινὸς ἀήτης 15.626, cf. 14.254; ἀνέμων ἀμέγαρτον ἀϋτμήν Od. 11.407, etc.; ἀνέμων πνεύματα Hdt. 7.16.αʹ, E. HF 102; ῥιπαί S. Ant. 137.930 (both lyr.); ἀήματα A. Eu. 905; αὖραι E. Med. 838; πνοιαί Ar. Av. 1396; ἀνέμων φθόγγος Simon. 37.10; ἀνέμου κατιόντος μεγάλου a gale having come on, Th. 2.25; ἀνέμου ἐξαίφνης ἀσελγοῦς γενομένου Eup. 320; ἄνεμος κατὰ βορέαν ἑστηκώς the wind being set in the north, Th. 6.104; ἀνέμοις φέρεσθαι παραδιδόναι τι cast a thing to the winds, E. Tr. 419, cf. A.R. 1.1334; κατʼ ἄνεμον στῆναι stand to leeward, Arist. HA 541a26, cf. Plu. 2.972a; κατʼ ἄνεμον καὶ ῥοῦν νήχεσθαι ib.979c: metaph., ἄνεμος . . ἄνθρωπος ‘unstable as the wind’, Eup. 376; φέρειν τινʼ ἄρας (sic l.) ἄ. a very wind to carry off, Antiph. 195.5 (Lobeck); ἀνέμους θηρᾶν ἐν δικτύοις try to catch the wind, and ἀνέμῳ διαλέγεσθαι talk to the wind, Zen. 1.38; ἀνέμους γεωργεῖν ‘plough the sands’, ib. 100. 2. cardinal point, quarter, ἐκ τῶν τεσσάρων ἀ. LXXZa. 2.6, Annales du Service 19.40 (Theadelphia, 93 B.C.), Ev.Matt. 24.31, al., Vett.Val. 140.6, PFlor. 50.104: sg., ib.20.19 (ii A.D.); τὸ κατʼ ἄνεμον aspect, POxy. 100.10 (ii A.D.). II. wind in the body, Hp. Mul. 2.179, al. (From ἀνε- ‘blow, breathe’, cf. Skt. áni-ti ‘breathes’, Goth. uzanan ‘expire’, etc.)
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