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Ἀλήιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀλήιος Ἀλήιη Ἀλήιον

Structure: Ἀληι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. poor in lands

Examples

  • Ἡσίοδοσ δ’ ἐν Σόλοισ ὑπὸ Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἀναιρεθῆναι τὸν Ἀμφίλοχόν φησιν, οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸ Ἀλήιον πεδίον, οἱ δ’ ἐν Συρίᾳ, ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀληίου ἀπιόντα διὰ τὴν ἔριν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 34:3)

Synonyms

  1. poor in lands

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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