ἥλιος
Alt. ἥλιος, ὁ,
I. "the sun", Lat. sol, Hom., etc.; ὁρᾶν φάος ἠελίοιο, i.e. to be alive, Il.—The Sun furnished the earliest mode of determining the points of the heaven, πρὸς ἠῶ τ᾽ ἠέλιόν τε, i. e. towards the "East", opp. to πρὸς ζόφον, Hom.; πρὸς ἠῶ τε καὶ ἡλίου ἀνατολάς, opp. to πρὸς ἑσπέρην, Hdt.
2. "day, a day", like Lat. soles, Pind., Eur.: so in pl. "hot sunny days", Thuc.
II. as prop. n., "Helios, the sun-god", Hom.; in later Poets = Apollo, Aesch., etc.