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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… the two primary meanings of a single word 'mobile, nimble, agile; multicoloured' (cf. Page in bibliography). In the third century AD, Porphyry [OCD(4) s.v., pp.1190-1; pi 2098] had advanced the third definition. He rejected …Matched in noteshighshort
λ92ΛαμπιτώLampito… Spartan queen mothers (widow of King Archidamus, mother of King Agis).Matched in noteshighshort
δ1560Δοῖδυξpestle… are implements used to crush and mix things, to create agitation. (For this see also Peace 259-284, where Kleon and Brasidas are the "pestles" used by the demon War to destroy Greece.) Aristophanes, however, …Matched in noteshighshort
η100ὅςquoth heSame material in Photius (Lexicon eta51); similarly elsewhere. See also eta 101. [The SOL headword, mistakenly, gives only the second element of the phrase.] [1] Eratosthenes [the great Alexandrian scholar: epsilon 2898] fr. 52 …Matched in noteshighmedium