[1] The headword noun is the Attic form of this nominative plural, the "gloss" its epic/Ionic equivalent; cf. nu 338. The phrase as a whole, with the definite article, is doubtless quoted from Aristophanes, Birds 1148.
2(Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss AF.) From alphaiota 225. In Byzantine and modern pronunciation, ai( nh=ttai and *Ai)ni=tai are homophonous.