ἔριον, τό,
Ionic dialect εἴριον [[ “GDI” iv (Chios, 4th c.BC, also written ἔρια [prev. passage]), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus, and always in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (indicating ἐρϝ-) except _genitive_ ἐρίοιο in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.124 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:— wool, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.434, Od.[same place], 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 175d ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐρίῳ στέψαντες, i.e. with woollen fillets, [[ [prev. author] “R.” 398a, etc.: frequently in _plural_, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.388, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.316 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἴρια ῥυπαρά, ἔρια οἰσυπηρά, greasy wool, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 21, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.74; ἔρια καθαρά “PCair.Zen.” 12.62 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τἄρια, crasis for τὰ ἔ., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1387; οὖλα ἔρια [prev. work] 1067 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔ. πεπταμένα outspread flocks of wool, [[ [prev. author] “Nu.” 343; ἐρίων τάλαντον [prev. author] “V.” 1147; τὰ Μιλήσια ἔ. 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 90.3, compare 4th c.BC: Amphis Comicus 27.1; εἴρια ἀπὸ ξύλου ] Refs 4th c.BC+]cotton, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3. 47, compare 106 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ἔ. [τῆς ἀράχνης] a spider's web, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.28 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὰ ἐκ τῆς θαλάττης ἔ., of the byssus of the pinna, [[ 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.2. (ἔρια “Schwyzer” 180 (from Crete) without initial ϝ-] Refs 4th c.AD+]; Latin vervex perhaps not cognate)