ων (αἱ) [ῠᾰ] les Hyades, litt. « les pluvieuses » constellation de sept étoiles à la tête du Taureau, IL. 18, 486 ; HÉS. O. 613, etc.

➳ [ῡ] EUR. Ion 1156, El. 468.

Étym. ὕω, p.-ê. étym. populaire ; selon d’autres de ὗς.

ων, αἱ (sg. in collect. sense, Ptol. Tetr. 94, Gloss.), the Hyades, a group of stars in the head of the Bull, Il. 18.486; their morning setting (in November) was a rainy season, Hes. Op. 615; hence commonly derived fr. ὕω, Lat. Pluviae, Verg. Aen. 1.744, 3.516, Ov. Fast. 5.166, v. Ὕης II; but in Lat. usu. called suculae, piglings, as if fr. ὗς, ὑός, Tiro ap. Gell. 13.9.4; υ is short in Ep., though υ in E. Ion 1156, El. 468 (lyr.). five Nymphs named by Hes. Fr. 180; later of the Nymphs who reared Dionysus, Pherecyd. 90 J. ; τὰς βάκχας Ὑάδας ἔλεγον Hsch. s.v. ἔναστρος.