A.amber (cf. Ἠλεκτρίδες）, [ὅρμος] μετὰ . . ἠλέκτροισιν (i.e. pieces of amber) “ἔερτο” Od.15.460, cf. 18.296, Hdt.3.115, Pl.Ti. 80c, Phld.Sign.1, D.L.1.24, etc.; “ἠλέκτρου λιβάδες” A.R.4.606.
II. an alloy of gold and silver, “χρυσοῦ τ᾽ ἠλέκτρου τε καὶ ἀργύρου ἠδ᾽ ἐλέφαντος” Od.4.73, cf. Hes.Sc.142, Hom.Epigr.15.10, Pytheas ap.Ath. 11.465d; τἀπὸ Σάρδεων ἤ. S.Ant.1038 (cj.): in pl., of the pegs of a lyre, “ἐκπιπτουσῶν τῶν ἠλέκτρων” Ar.Eq.532. (The two senses are difficult to distinguish in early Poetry; cf. Paus.5.12.7, Plin.HN33.80, 37.31. The word is connected with ἠλέκτωρ.)
