νεφέλη, ἡ,
(νέφος) cloud, mass of clouds (distinguished from ὁμίχλη, mist or fog, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 346b33), 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.20, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 745, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ν. κυανέη, πορφυρέη, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.75, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.551; ἐριβρόμου νεφέλας στρατός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 6.11; νεφέλαι πόκοις ἐρίων ὁμοῖαι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 13.] Refs 8th c.BC+]—Mostly poetry, but found in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.8, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] [same places], and in late Prose, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.777e, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Epistulae” 24. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 metaphorically, νεφέλη δέ μιν ἀμφεκάλυψε κυανέη, of death, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.417 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸν δ᾽ ἄχεος νεφέλη ἐκάλυψε μέλαινα a cloud of sorrow,[[ 17.591, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 528 (_anapaest meter_); πολέμου ν. 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 89; φόνου ν. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.38, compare “I.” 7(6).27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Κενταύρου φονίᾳ νεφέλᾳ, i.e. with his blood, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 831 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κελαινῶπις ν., of sleep, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II of clouds in urine, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 12, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.252. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]