πολιός, ά, όν,
also ός, όν, ἁλὸς πολιοῖο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.229, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.410, etc.; χήραν πολιόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 348 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—grey, grizzled, grisly, λύκοιο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.334; κορῶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 967; σίδηρος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.366, “hymnus ad Mercurium” 41, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 758 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the surging sea, πολιῆς ἐπὶ θινὶ θαλάσσης [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.248; πολιὴν ἅλα ναιέμεν 15.190; π. θάλασσα 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 51; π. πέλαγος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 350 (Lyric poetry); γάλα 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 10.135; λύκοι 1G 42(1).131.12 (Epid.)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but,
__2 most frequently of human hair, grey from age, κάρη, κεφαλή, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.74, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.317, etc.; π. στῆθος 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 20.2; γῆρας π. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 6(5).15, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 258; πολιοί ] Refs 8th c.BC+]greyhaired men, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.499; π. ματέρες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 182 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 35, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 600, 610, 692, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 127b (rare in _Attic dialect_ Prose), 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 473; Τραῖαι, ἐκ γενετῆς πολιαί 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 271 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: comparative -ώτεροι[[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 235: _absolutely_, πολιαί (i.e. τρίχες) 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.28, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 722a7, “Pr.” 898a31; πολιῶν ἔσχηκας τὸν πώγωνα μεστόν 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 2.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἅμα ταῖς π. κατιούσαις as the grey hairs come down (i. e. from the temples to the beard), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 520, compare 908; ἕως τὸ δὴ λεγόμενον πολιὰς σχῇ “PMich.Zen.” 77 (3rd c.BC),cf. LXX.Isa.47.2, +others, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ κακιῶν ί” p.32J. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]