ἡμίον-ος, ἡ,
[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.852, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.22, “Rev.Phil.” 50.67 (Didyma, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 8th c.BC+], etc.; ὁ, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.742, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 27e, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: Aeolic dialect αἰμί- [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 20a. 14 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]:— half-ass, i.e. mule, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.352, +others, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 576b11, etc.; ταλαεργός 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.654: proverbial, γνοίης ὅσσον ὄνων κρέσσονες ἡμίονοι 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 996 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐφ᾽ ἡμιόνων on a car drawn by mules, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.702 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰς ἡμιόνους ποιεῖν to write an ode on a team of racing-mules, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1405b26: proverbial, ἐπεὰν ἡμίονοι τέκωσι, i.e. never, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.153: _metaphorically_, ἡ. βασιλεύς] Refs 5th c.BC+], i.e. half-Mede, half-Persian, Oracle texts cited in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.55. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 ἡ. ἀγροτέρα wild ass, onager, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.852 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἱ ἐν Συρίᾳ καλούμεναι ἡ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 491a2, compare 580b1, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II as adjective, βρέφος ἡμίονον a mule-foal, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.266. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]