αἴξ, αἰγός, ὁ,
h(: dative plural αἴγεσιν[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.486, αἴγεσσιν 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 323] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also Boeotian dialect ἤγυς, ={αἴγοις}, [[ “IG” 7.3171] Refs]:—goat, mostly feminine, μηκάδας αἶγας[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.124; λεύκας αἶγος 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 7(assuming variant), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 71, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 639a, etc., but _masculine_ in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.106, 530; also τῶν αἰγῶν τῶν τραγῶν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.112:—once in Trag., 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 793 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 αἲξ ἄγριος wild goat, probably ibex (compare αἴγαγρος), ἰονθάς[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.50; ἴξαλος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.105; αἶγες ὀρεσκῷοι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.155; ἀγρότεραι 17.295:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —proverbs, αἲξ οὐρανία in Comedy texts as a source of mysterious and suspected wealth, in allusion to the horn of Amalthea, [[ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 244; οὐράνιον αἶγα πλουτοφόρον “Comica Adespota” 8] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἲξ τὴν μάχαιραν (i.e. ηὗρε), of those who 'ask for trouble', [[ 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 1.27] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; αἲξ οὔπω τέτοκεν 'don't count your chickens before they are hatched',[[ 1.42; αἲξ Σκυρία· ἐπὶ τῶν τὰς εὐεργεσίας ἀνατρεπόντων· ἀνατρέπει γὰρ τὸ ἀγγεῖον ἀμελχθεῖσα 4th-5th c.AD: Diogenianus Paroemiographus 2.33; αἲξ ἐς θάλασσαν· ἀτενὲς ὁρᾷς, ἐπὶ τῶν φιληδούντων 3.8; κἂν αἲξ δάκἡ ἄνδρα πονηρόν 5.87; οὐ δύναμαι τὴν αἶγα φέρειν, ἐπί μοι θέτε τὸν βοῦν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.830a; ἐλεύθεραι αἶγες ἀρότρων· ἐπὶ τῶν βάρους τινὸς ἀπηλλαγμένων 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 3.69] Refs 1st c.AD+]; κατ᾽ αἶγας ἀγρίας, ={ἐς κόρακας}, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, 4th-5th c.AD: Diogenianus Paroemiographus 5.49; νοῦσος, αἶγας ἐς ἀγριάδας τὴν ἀποπεμπόμεθα 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Aetia” 3.1.13] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; αἰγῶν ὀνόματα, of worthless objects, [[ 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] Refs]