ἀήρ

A. Aër. 6,al., Aret. CA 2.3; Aeol. αὐήρ Sch.Pi. P. 2.52; Dor. ἀβήρ (i.e. ἀvήρ) Hsch.:— fem. in Hom. and Hes. (exc. Op. 549), Anaxag. ap. Thphr. Sens. 30; from Hdt downwds. masc. (Il. 5.776, 8.50, h.Cer. 383 cannot be quoted for the masc. usage, since there πουλύς and βαθύς need not be masc.):—in Hom. and Hes. always mist, haze, not (as Aristarch.) lower air (opp. αἰθήρ, q.v.); [ἐλάτη] μακροτάτη πεφυυῖα δῑ ἠέρος αἰθέρ’ ἵκανεν Il. 14.288, cf. Anaxag. 1, Ar. Nu. 264sq.; περὶ δ’ ἠέρα πουλὺν ἔχευεν Il. 5.776, cf. 3.381, 8.50; ἠέρα μὲν σκέδας εν καὶ ἀπῶσεν ὀμί χλην 17.649; τρὶς δ’ ἠέρα τύψε βαθεῖαν 20.446; rare in Prose, Hp. l.c.

2. later, generally, air, Anaxim.1, Emp. 17.18, S. El. 87, Ar. Av. 187,694, etc.; πρὸς τὸν ἀέρα διατρίβειν in the open air, Ar. Nu. 198, cf.Teles p.11.3 H., Luc. Anach. 24; τὸν ἀέρ’ ἕλκειν καθαρόν Philyll. 20, cf. Philem. 119; ἔσπασας τὸν ἀ. τὸν κοινόν Men. 531.7; ἀέρα δέρειν 1 Ep.Cor. 9.26; εἰς ἀέρᾳ λαλεῖν ib.14.9:—in pl., Pl. Phd. 98c, 98d; climates, Hp. Aër. tit., cf. Men.Rh.p.383 S.; of mephitic exhalations, Str. 5.4.5.

3. personified, ὦ δέσποτ’ ἄναξ ἀμέτ ρητ’ Ἀ. Ar. Nu. 264; Ἀ. ὃν ἄν τις ὀνομάσειε καὶ Δία Philem. 91.4, cf. Diph. 126.6.

II. hot-air room in baths, Gal. 11.14.

2. volume, Hero *Stereom. 57,al.

III. a pigment, sky-blue or grey, Id. Aut. 28.3. [α, except in Arist. Fr. 642, Ps.-Phoc. [108].]