ἀήρ, ἀέρος,
[[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ἀήρ, ἠέρος] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect nominative ἠήρ [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 6, +others, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 2.3] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect αὐήρ [[Scholia 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.52] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialect ἀβήρ (i.e. ἀϜήρ) [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus:— _feminine_ in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus (except “Op.” 549), 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus cited in 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Sensu” 30; from Hdt downwards _masculine_ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.776, 8.50, “hymnus ad Cererem” 383 cannot be quoted for the _masculine_ usage, since there πουλύς and βαθύς need not be _masculine_):—in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] always mist, haze, not (as [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus)] Refs 3rd c.BC+] lower air (opposed to αἰθήρ, which see); [ἐλάτη] μακροτάτη πεφυυῖα δι᾽ ἠέρος αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανεν[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.288, compare 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 1, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 264sq.; περὶ δ᾽ ἠέρα πουλὺν ἔχευεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.776, compare 3.381, 8.50; ἠέρα μὲν σκέδας εν καὶ ἀπῶσεν ὀμί χλην 17.649; τρὶς δ᾽ ἠέρα τύψε βαθεῖαν 20.446] Refs 8th c.BC+]; rare in Prose, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus [prev. cited] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 later, generally, air, Anaxim.1, [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 17.18, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 87, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 187, 694, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὸν ἀέρα διατρίβειν in the open air, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 198, compare 3rd c.BC: Teles Philosophus p.11.3 H., 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 24; τὸν ἀέρ᾽ ἕλκειν καθαρόν 5th c.BC: Philyllius Comicus 20, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 119; ἔσπασας τὸν ἀ. τὸν κοινόν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 531.7; ἀέρα δέρειν NT.1Cor.9.26; εἰς ἀέρᾳ λαλεῖν [prev. work] 14.9:—in _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 98c, 98d] NT+5th c.BC+]; climates, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” at Title Page, cf. Men.Rh.p.383 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of mephitic exhalations, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 5.4.5. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]