goat
αἴξ,αἰγός,ὁ, ἡ: dat. pl.
A.
αἴγεσιν
Il. 10.486
, αἴγεσσιν
Choerob. in Theod. 323
; also Boeot.
ἤγυς,
= αἴγοις , IG 7.3171 :—goat, mostly fem., μηκάδας αἶγας
Od. 9.124
; λεύκας αἶγος
Sapph. 7
(s.v.l.), cf. Ar. Nu. 71 , Pl. Lg. 639a , etc., but masc. in Od. 14.106 , 530 ; also τῶν αἰγῶν τῶν τραγῶν
Hdt. 3.112
:—once in Trag., S. Fr. 793 (anap.).
2. αἲξ ἄγριοςwildgoat, prob.ibex(cf.αἴγαγρος) , ἰονθάς
Od. 14.50
; ἴξαλος
Il. 4.105
; αἶγες ὀρεσκῷοι
Od. 9.155
; ἀγρότεραι
17.295
:—proverbs,αἲξ οὐρανίαin Com. as a source of mysterious and suspected wealth, in allusion to the horn of Amalthea, Cratin. 244 ; οὐράνιον αἶγα πλουτοφόρον
Com.Adesp. 8
;αἲξ τὴν μάχαιραν(sc.ηὗρε), of those who 'ask for trouble', Zen. 1.27 ;αἲξ οὔπω τέτοκεν'don't count your chickens before they are hatched', 1.42 ; αἲξ Σκυρία: ἐπὶ τῶν τὰς εὐεργεσίας ἀνατρεπόντων: ἀνατρέπει γὰρ τὸ ἀγγεῖον ἀμελ χθεῖσα
Diogenian. 2.33
; αἲξ ἐς θάλασσαν: ἀτενὲς ὁρᾷς, ἐπὶ τῶν φιληδούντων
3.8
; κἂν αἲξ δάκἡ ἄνδρα πονηρόν
5.87
; οὐ δύναμαι τὴν αἶγα φέρειν, ἐπί μοι θέτε τὸν βοῦν
Plu. 2.830a
; ἐλεύθεραι αἶγες ἀρότρων: ἐπὶ τῶν βάρους τινὸς ἀπηλλαγμένων
Zen. 3.69
;κατ' αἶγας ἀγρίας,
= ἐς κόρακας , Hsch. , Diogenian. 5.49 ; νοῦσος, αἶγας ἐς ἀγριάδας τὴν ἀποπεμπόμεθα
Call. Aet. 3.1.13
;αἰγῶν ὀνόματα, of worthless objects, Suid.
3. the star Capella, Arat. 157 .
II. a water-bird, apparently of thegoosekind, Arist. HA 593b23 .
III. fiery meteor, Arist. Mete. 341b3 .
IV. in pl.,waves, Artem. 2.12 . ( Att.
αἶξ, acc. to Hdn.Gr. 1.937 .)
