ἄγγελος

A. messenger, envoy, Il. 2.26, etc.; δῑ ἀγγέλων ὁμιλέειν τινί Hdt. 5.92.ζ/, cf. SIG 229.25 (Erythrae):— prov., Ἀράβιος ἄ., of a loquacious person, Men. 32.

2. generally, one that announces or tells, e.g. of birds of augury, Il. 24.292,296; Μουσῶν ἄγγελος, of a poet, Thgn. 769; ἄγγελε ἔαρος . . χελιδοῖ Simon. 74; ἄ. ἄφθογγος, of a beacon, Thgn. 549; of the nightingale, ὄρνις . . Διὸς ἄ. S. El. 149: c. gen. rei, ἄ. κακῶν ἐμῶν Id. Ant. 277; ἄγγελον γλῶσσαν λόγων E. Supp. 203; αἴσθησις ἡμῖν ἄ. Plot. 5.3.3; neut. pl., ἄγγελα νίκης Nonn. D. 34.226.

3. angel, LXX Ge. 28.12, al., Ev.Matt. 1.24, al., Ph. 2.604, etc.

4. in later philos., semi-divine being, ἡλιακοὶ ἄ. Jul. Or. 4.141b, cf. Iamb. Myst. 2.6, Procl. in R. 2.243 K.; ἄ. καὶ ἀρχάγγελοι Theol.Ar. 43.10, cf. Dam. Pr. 183, al.: also in mystical and magical writings, Herm. ap. Stob. 1.49.45, PMag.Lond. 46.121, etc.

II. title of Artemis at Syracuse, Hsch.