'ἀν·οπαῖα, adv., à perte de vue (selon d’autres, ἀν' ὀπαῖα, en haut par le trou du toit, de fumée), OD. 1, 320.

Étym. hapax, dont le sens et l’accent. sont incert. ; p.-ê. mot grec récent, non d’origine indo-europ.

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only in Od. 1.320 ὄρνις δ’ ὣς ἀνοπαῖα διέπτατο, where it is variously written and explained; acc. to Hdn. Gr. 2.133, it is an Adv. (compd. of ἀνά, ὄπτομαι), she flew away unseen, unnoticed; or, acc. to Eust., = ἄνω, ἀνωφερές, up into the air, cf. καρπαλίμως ἀνόπαιον Emp. 51, and Ἀνόπαια, the name of the pass above Thermopylae (Hdt. 7.216). acc. to Aristarch., ἀνόπαια or πανόπαια, a kind of eagle, cf. Hebr. ΄ănāphā ΄heron΄. acc. to Gramm. in An.Ox. 1.83, ἀν’ ὀπαῖα (= ἀνὰ ὀπήν) up by the hole in the roof, up the smoke-vent.

Adv., s. ἀνόπαια.