ψολόεις

A. sooty, smoky, mostly as epith. of κεραυνός, lurid, Od. 23.330, 24.539, Hes. Th. 515; opp. ἀργής (vivid), Arist. Mete. 371a21, Mu. 395a26; also of a serpent, opp. αἰθός, χροιῇ ψολόεις Nic. Th. 288, cf. 129 (where ψολόεις is fem.), Opp. C. 3.439; Αἴτνη ψολόεσσα Euph. 51.11.

II. ψολόεις, οἱ, the male mourners in a ritual at the Boeotian Orchomenos, Plu. 2.299e: prob. so called because δυσειματοῦντες, cf. Plu. l. c.