βλέφᾰρον,
Doric dialect γλέφᾰρον, τό:—mostly in plural (as always in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] Refs 8th c.BC+], eyelids, βλέφαρ᾽ ἀμφὶ καὶ ὀφρύας [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.389, +others ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of sleep, φίλα βλέφαρ᾽ ἀμφικαλύψας [[ 5.493 ] Refs]; ὕπνος ἀπὸ βλεφάροιϊν (dual) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.187; ὕπνον ἐπὶ βλεφάροισιν ἔχευεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.54, +others; παῦρον ἐπὶ γλεφάροις ὕπνον ἀναλίσκοισα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.24 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γλεφάρων ἁδὺ κλάϊστρον[[ [prev. work] 1.8; βλέφαρα κέκλῃται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 711 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. συμβαλεῖν, κοιμᾶν ὕπνῳ, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 15, “Th.” 3 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of weeping, δάκρυ χαμαὶ βάλεν ἐκ βλεφάροιϊν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.490, compare 23.33 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of death, λύειν β. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1302: in Prose, 5th c.BC: Antipho Sophista 81a, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 45d, “PPetr.” 3p.23 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: rarely in singular, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 302; β. τὸ ἄνω καὶ κάτω 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 491b19, compare “PA” 657b14. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II in plural, eyes, βλεφάρων κυανεάων [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 7 (where the _feminine_ _adjective_ points to a _nominative_ ἡ βλέφαρος)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently in Trag., σκοτώσω β. καὶ δεδορκότα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 85, compare “Tr.” 107 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in singular, of the sun, ἁμέρας β. [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 104 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs]; of the curtain of darkness at nightfall, νυκτὸς ἀφεγγὲς β. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 543. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]