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- αι137Αἴθ' ὄφελες θανεῖν ἢ πανύστατον ὀρχήσασθαιif only you had died or danced for the very last timeCallimachus, Hecale fr. 326, with scholion. (The third word of the original must be qane/ein for metrical reasons; and h)\ panu/staton is regarded as corrupt.) For 'if only you had' cf. alphaiota 136.
- αι158Αἰθύξασαhaving stirred… extracted from the quotation given. [1] Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 241, with scholion.
- αι142ΑἴθωνblazingFrom ancient comment on Callimachus, Hymn 6 (to Demeter), which has the phrase limo\n ai)/qona at lines 66-67. [1] Or (Toup) Aithon 'of Elis'.
- αι126ΑἰθιοπεὺςEthiopian… fill the same metrical space as a dative plural *ai)qio/pessi. Callimachus uses the genitive singular as an adjective (referring to the source of the Nile) in his Hymn to Delos (4.208 Pfeiffer). cf. alphaiota …
- αι115Αἰθέριον ὕψοςetherial height… aether cf. alphaiota 121, alphaiota 122. [1] Tentatively attributed to Callimachus by Adler, but not recognised as such in the editions. A TLG search shows several attestations of it, one of them recurrent: a …
- αι17ΑἰγαλέωςAigaleos… (480 BCE). It is mentioned in the genitive case in Callimachus, Hecale fr.238 (line 23), which was perhaps cited in this entry's missing conclusion. The regular Attic genitive singular is *ai)gale/w (as at mu …
- αι155Αἴθυιαgull, shearwater… with quei/a (theta 534). [2] Likewise in other lexica. [3] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 327, with comment from the scholia there.
- 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… 12.208; Paean Delph. i in Apoll. 1.19 Powell, Coll. Alex.; Callimachus fr. 575.1 Pfeiffer; Nicander, Theriaca 155, alphaiota 246), the undulating body of Echidna (Hesiod, Theogony 300, cf. scholia, polue/likton), and a mass of …