ἠώς

ἠώς, ἡ, gen. ἠοῦς: dat. ἠοῖ: acc. (ἠόα A.D. Pron. 88.5) ἠῶ, also ἠοῦν Hedyl. ap. Ath. 11.473a, AP 7.472 (Leon.); Ep. loc. ἠῶθι: never used (exc. by Gramm.) in the uncontr. forms, unless Ἀόος be read in Pi. N. 6.52:—Att. ἕως, gen. and acc. ἕω: Dor. ἀώς, ἀβώρ (qq. v.): Aeol. αὔως Sapph. 18, gen. αὔως Epigr.Gr. 992 (Balbilla), acc. αὔων Sapph. Oxy. 1787 Fr. 1 + 2.18: Boeot. ἄας· ἐς αὔριον, Hsch.:—A. dawn, ἦμος δʼ ἠριγένεια φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς Od. 2.1; light of day, ὅσον τʼ ἐπικίδναται ἠ. Il. 7.451, etc.; esp. morning as a time of day, opp. μέσον ἦμαρ, δείλη, 21.111, etc.: gen. ἠοῦς at morn, early, 8.470,525: acc. ἠῶ the morning long, Od. 2.434; στάντα πρὸς πρώτην ἕω S. OC 477; ἐξ ἠοῦς μέχρι δείλης ὀψίης Hdt. 7.167; ἐξ ἠοῦς εἰς ἠοῦν Hedyl.l.c.; ἠοῦν ἐξ ἠοῦς APl.c.; ἅμα ἠοῑ with, i.e. at, daybreak, Hdt. 7.219; Att. ἅμα ἕῳ or ἅμα τῇ ἕῳ, Th. 2.90, 4.72; τρὸ τῆς ἕω ib.31; Ep. ἠῶθι πρό Il. 11.50, Od. 5.469, 6.36; ἐπὶ τὴν ἕω Th. 2.84; εἰς τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἕω X. An. 1.7.1; ἐς ἀῶ to-morrow, Theoc. 18.14. 2. day, Il. 1.493, al., Od. 19.192, Theoc. 12.1, Call. Aet. 1.1.1; ἠ. δέ μοί ἐστιν ἥδε δυωδεκάτη, ὅτε. . Il. 21.80; κατήϊεν ἐς δύσιν ἠ. Musae. 110; μεσάτη ἠ. Orph. A. 649. 3. life, Q.S. 10.431; φῶς λίπες ἠοῦς IG 14.1853. 4. the East, πρὸς ἠῶ τʼ ἠέλιόν τε Il. 12.239 (South acc. to Str. 10.2.12); ἀπὸ ἠοῦς πρὸς ἑσπέρην Hdt. 2.8; τὰ πρὸς τὴν ἠῶ ibid.; τὰ πρὸς ἠῶ τε καὶ ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα Id. 4.40, cf. Pl. Lg. 760d, etc.; πρὸς ἕω τῆς πόλεως, τοῦ ποταμοῦ, to the East of . . , X. HG 5.4.49, Plu. Luc. 27; πρὸ ἠοῦς τοῦ βωμοῦ IG 7.235.45 (Oropus, iv B.C.). II. pr. n., Ἠώς the goddess of dawn, Il. 11.1, Hes. Th. 372,378, etc. (Cf. Skt. uṣā´s ‘dawn’, Lat. aurora, etc.)