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- αι250Αἰολομίτρηςagile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem… illustration of the mitre as girdle) and increased his upper-body agility in shield and spear fighting. We may, with some confidence, take this as the meaning of the headword in Homer. (ii) After Homer …
- 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 …
- αι252ΑἴολοςAeolus, Aiolos… case the name in Linear B does not mean “Swift, Agile,” and could belong to either a horse or a bull (see the controversy over Sir Arthur Evans’ identification of the ideogram as a …