(Adj.) : Ēōs (only in nom.), f., = Ἠώς
* The dawn (pure Lat. Aurora), Ov. F. 3, 877; 4, 389; Sen. Herc. Oet. 615.
* Meton., the East, the Orient, Luc. 9, 544.
* Derivv. Ēōus, a, um.
* Belonging to the morning, morning-: Atlantides absconduntur,i. e. disappear, set in the morning,Verg. G. 1, 221.—More freq.
* Belonging to the east, eastern, orient (a favorite word of the Aug. poets): domus Aurorae,Prop. 2, 14, 10 (3, 10, 8 M.): equus,id. 4 (5), 3, 10: Arabes,Tib. 3, 2, 24; cf.: domus Arabum,Verg. G. 2, 115: acies,id. A. 1, 489: caelum,Ov. M. 4, 197: ripa,Prop. 4 (5), 5, 21. mare,Tib. 2, 2, 16; cf. fluctus,Hor. Epod. 2, 51: partes,id. C. 1, 35, 31; Ov. F. 1, 140; cf. orbis,id. ib. 3, 466; 5, 557 et saep.
* Subst.: Ēōus, i, m.
* Like ἠῷος (sc. ἀστήρ), the morning-star, Verg. G. 1, 288; id. A. 3, 588; 11, 4.
* An inhabitant of the East, an Oriental, Ov. Tr. 4, 9, 22 Jahn; id. Am. 1, 15, 29; Prop. 2, 3, 43 sq.
* The name of one of the horses of the sun, Ov. M. 2, 153.