ἀχλύς, ύος, ἡ,
(accusative ἀχλύα[[ 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 341)] Refs 5th c.AD+] mist, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.357; elsewhere in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] of a mist over the eyes, as of one dying, κατὰ δ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν κέχυτ᾽ ἀ.[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.696] Refs 8th c.BC+]; as result of ulceration, ἀχλύες[[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.20, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 7.6.2, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.78 (_plural_), 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 7.27] Refs 5th c.BC+]; or in emotion, Ἔρως πολλὴν κατ᾽ ἀχλὺν ὀμμάτων ἔχευεν[[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 103 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; of drunkenness, πρὸς ὄμμ᾽ ἀ. ἀμβλωπὸς ἐφίζει[[ 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 6.11 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of one whom a god deprives of the power of seeing and knowing others, κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν χέεν ἀχλύν[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.321; ἀπ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν σκέδασ᾽ ἀχλύν [prev. work] 341, compare 5.127, 15.668] Refs 8th c.BC+]:— personified as Sorrow, πὰρ δ᾽ Ἀχλὺς εἱστήκει ἐπισμυγερή τε καὶ αἰνή, χλωρή, ἀϋσταλέη[[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 264. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, δνοφεράν τιν᾽ ἀχλὺν.. αὐδᾶται[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 379 (Lyric poetry), compare “Pers.” 668 (Lyric poetry); ἀχλὺν ἀπὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ἀφελεῖν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 38.19; διάνοια ἀχλύος γέμουσα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.42c. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 ἀ. ὑγρή liquid emitted by cuttlefish, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 3.158.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]—Mostly poetry, but used by [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus (see. above) and 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 367b17, 373b12 (_plural_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in later Prose, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 34.11.15, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 6.2.8, and see above 2] Refs 2nd c.BC+]. [ῡ in nominative and accusative singular, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus: ῠ in later poets.]] Refs 8th c.BC+]