ἀετός,
Epic dialect, Lyric poetry, Ionic dialect, and early Attic dialect αἰετός (see. near the end), οῦ, ὁ, eagle, as a bird of omen, αἰ. τελειότατον πετεηνῶν[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.247, compare 12.201, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.146 (compare 11)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: favourite of Zeus, ὅστε σοὶ αὐτῷ φίλτατος οἰωνῶν[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.310, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.6; Διὸς.. πτηνὸς κύων, δαφοινὸς αἰ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1022, compare “Ag.” 136; ὁ σκηπτροβάμων αἰ., κύων Διός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 885:—proverbial, αἰετὸς ἐν ποτανοῖς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.80] Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἰετὸς ἐν νεφέλαισι, of a thing quite out of reach, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 987] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀετὸν κάνθαρος μαιεύσομαι (see. μαιεύομαι):—the different kinds are distinguished by specific names, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 618b18sqq. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 eagle as a standard, of the Persians, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the Romans, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 23, etc. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3 the constellation [[ “Aquila”, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 591, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 27, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II omen, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 26.31. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__III eagle-ray, Myliobatis aquila, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 540b18. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]