ἠέλιος : the
sun; of rising, ἀνιέναι,
ἀνορούειν,
Od. 3.1;
ἀνανεῖσθαι,
Od. 10.192;
στείχειν πρὸς οὐρανόν, Od.
11.17; noon, μέσον οὐρανὸν
ἀμφιβαίνειν, Il. 8.68;
afternoon, μετανίσσειν βουλυ_τόνδε,
Il. 16.779; ἄψ
ἐπὶ γαῖαν προτρέπεσθαι, Od.
11.18; setting, δύειν, ἐπιδύειν,
καταδύειν, ἐμπι?πτειν Ὠκεανῷ, Il. 8.485; of shining, ἐπιλάμπειν, ἀκτῖσι βάλλειν, ἐπιδέρκεσθαι
ἀκτι?νεσσιν, also φάος
ἠελίοιο, often as typical of life, Od. 11.93, Il.
18.11, 61,
Od. 4.540;
αὐγή, αἴγλη, μένος, Ψ 190, Od. 10.160; epithets, ἀκάμα_ς,
λαμπρός, λευκός, παμφανόων, φαεσίμβροτος. Expressions
for east and west, Od. 13.240, Il. 12.239, Od.
10.191
.—Ἠέλιος, Ἥλιος (Od. 8.271),
Helius, the sun-god, son of Hyperion, Od. 12.176, Od.
1.8; father of Circe, and of Phaethūsa and
Lampetie, Od. 10.138, Od. 12.133; propitiated by sacrifice,
Il. 3.104, Il. 19.197; oath by the sun, Il.
19.259; the kine of Helius, Od.
12.128, 322, τ 276, Od. 23.329.
Georg Autenrieth. A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1891.
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