ἤλεκτρον, τό,
and ἤλεκτρος, ὁ or ἡ (gender indeterminate in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, and 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, _neuter_ in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.115, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.18.2, 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 102a, _masculine_ in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1038 codices, Eust.ad 2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 293, _feminine_ in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 532, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Aphr. “Pr.Praef.”)] Refs 8th c.BC+], amber (compare Ἠλεκτρίδες), [ὅρμος] μετὰ.. ἠλέκτροισιν (i.e. pieces of amber) ἔερτο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.460, compare 18.296, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.115, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 80c, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 1, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 1.24, etc.; ἠλέκτρου λιβάδες 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.606. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II an alloy of gold and silver, χρυσοῦ τ᾽ ἠλέκτρου τε καὶ ἀργύρου ἠδ᾽ ἐλέφαντος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.73, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 142, 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus “Epigrammata” 15.10, Pytheas cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 11.465d ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τἀπὸ Σάρδεων ἤ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1038 (conjecture)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, of the pegs of a lyre, ἐκπιπτουσῶν τῶν ἠλέκτρων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 532 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. (The two senses are difficult to distinguish in early Poetry;[[compare 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.12.7, 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 33.80, 37.31. The word is connected with ἠλέκτωρ.) ] Refs 1st c.AD+]