ἠέλιος

• Hyphenation: ἠ‧έ‧λι‧ος

ἠέλῐος • (ēélĭos) m (genitive ἠελῐ́ου); second declension

1. Epic and Ionic form of ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”)
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.475:

     Ἦμος δ’ ἠέλιος κατέδῡ καὶ ἐπὶ κνέφας ἦλθε,

     Êmos d’ ēélios katédū kaì epì knéphas êlthe,

     And when the sun sank down and dusk came on,

   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On Nutriments 42:

     ἐς τύπωσιν λε’ ἠέλιοι

     es túpōsin le’ ēélioi

     • Translation by W. H. S. Jones

       For formation, thirty-five days

• “ἠέλιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἠέλιος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963