αἰόλος Deriv. uncertain. The penult. is lengthd. in the gen. Αἰόλου μεγαλήτορος, metri grat., Od. quick-moving, Il.; αἰόλαι εὐλαί wriggling worms, Il.; so of wasps and serpents, Il. changeful of hue, gleaming, glancing, of arms and armour, Il.; (but here also it may be explained moving with the body, manageable, Lat. habilis);— also, αἰόλα νύξ star-spangled night, Soph.; Aesch. calls smoke flushed by fire-light αἰόλη πυρὸς κάσις; αἰόλα σάρξ discoloured from disease, Soph. metaph., changeful, shifting, varied, κάκα Aesch.; of sounds, ἰαχή Eur. shifty, wily, slippery, ψεῦδος Pind. as prop. n., proparox. Αἴολος, ου, ὁ, lord of the winds, properly the rapid or the changeable, Od.