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Αἰόλιος · Aeolius, Aiolios (αι 248) · Suda

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Near αι248

αι244undulating; leaping in undulating circles; of intricate, dazzling, multicoloured design
αι245darkening, discolouring
αι246turns, variegates
αι247sparkling night, swift-circling night, ever-turning night
αι248Aeolius, Aiolios
αι249Aeolocentaur, (?)Were-centaur
αι250agile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem
αι251with piebald ponies; with swift-circling ponies
αι252Aeolus, Aiolos

Suda/ΑΙ alphaiota/αι248

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Αἰόλιος

Aeolius, Aiolios

Translated by Robert Dyer27 Feb 2003Vetting: high3 revisions

definition
epic
geography
meter and music
mythology
poetry
+1
- women

3 words

Translation

A proper name.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Αἰόλιος· ὄνομα κύριον.

Betacode

*ai)o/lios: o)/noma ku/rion.

Notes

That of a character in Greek mythology. Aiolios was one of the long sequence of unsuccessful suitors -- Pelops being the eventually successful one -- of Hippodameia (PW 1.1034), daughter of Oinomaos [Author, Myth]: see Pausanias 6.21.11; scholion d to Pindar, Olympians 1.79(127); and a broken line of a papyrus fragment of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women (Eoiai fr. 16.13 Merkelbach/West).
'Aiolios' is also used as an adjective in the names of the Aeolian Islands (OCD(4) p.23), where Aiolos (alphaiota 252) was worshipped as a god in Hellenistic times (Diodorus Siculus 20.101.2), and of the Aeolian mode of music.

Linked from2 entries

αι252ΑἴολοςAeolus, AiolosA proper name.
αι253Αἰόλοςundulating, wavelike, advancing in a winding or rolling fashion, agile in turning side to side; multicoloured, discoloured, black or chestnut with white markings; easily moved, changeable, wily, quick-witted, liable to metamorphosis, disturbed in mind; whirling; self-generating in movement, ever-turning; lively, flashing, shimmering[Meaning] easily-moved/agile, multicoloured [or: intricate, or: changeable]. Or swift; [so called] from the whirlwind [hurricane or tornado], which comes from ‘to blow’ and ‘to wind/roll up’.

Neighbouring entries

αι246Αἰόλλειturns, variegates αι247Αἰόλη νύξsparkling night, swift-circling night, ever-turning night αι248ΑἰόλιοςAeolius, Aiolios αι249ΑἰολοκένταυροςAeolocentaur, (?)Were-centaur αι250Αἰολομίτρηςagile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem

Revision history3 revisions · last 29 Nov 2015

29 Nov 2015small additions to notes; another keyword — David Whitehead
30 Jul 2014updated a ref — David Whitehead
27 Feb 2003modified and augmented note; added more keywords — David Whitehead
27 Feb 2003Translated — Robert Dyer

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Αἰόλιος (Adler number alphaiota 248), trans. Robert Dyer, 27 Feb 2003. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alphaiota/248

Translation by Robert Dyer for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗