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ἀνοπαῖα , only in Od.1.320 ὄρνις δ᾽ ὣς ἀνοπαῖα διέπτατο, where it is variously written and explained:
1. acc. to Hdn.Gr.2.133, it is an Adv. (compd. of ἀνά, Ο῎πτομαι), she flew away unseen, unnoticed; or, acc. to Eust., = ἄνω, ἀνωφερές, up into the air, cf. “καρπαλίμως ἀνόπαιον” Emp.51, and Ἀνόπαια, the name of the pass above Thermopylae (Hdt.7.216).
2. acc. to Aristarch., ἀνόπαια or πανόπαια, a kind of eagle, cf. Hebr. α?̓να_πηα_ 'heron'.
3. acc. to Gramm. in An.Ox.1.83, ἀν᾽ ὀπαῖα （῀ ἀνὰ ὀπήν) up by the hoie in the roof, up the smoke-vent.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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