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ἀλαλή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλαλή

Structure: ἀλαλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: (Formed from the sound, cf. a)lalai/.)

Sense

  1. a loud cry, the cry with which battle was begun, the battle-cry

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἄλαλα γενηθήτω τὰ χείλη τὰ δόλια τὰ λαλοῦντα κατὰ τοῦ δικαίου ἀνομίαν ἐν ὑπερηφανίᾳ καὶ ἐξουδενώσει. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 30:19)
  • Βᾶτε, σεμναὶ Χάριτεσ, ἴτε, τᾷ περὶ παρθένῳ Δηοῖ θυμωσαμένᾳ λύπαν ἐξαλλάξατ’ ἀλαλᾷ, Μοῦσαί θ’ ὕμνοισι χορῶν. (Euripides, Helen, choral, strophe 22)
  • κλῦθ’ Ἀλαλά, Πολέμου θύγατερ, ἐγχέων προοίμιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 33 2:5)
  • κλῦθ’ Ἀλαλά, Πολέμου θύγατερ, ἐγχέων προοίμιον, ᾇ θύεται ἄνδρεσ τὸν ἱρόθυτον θάνατον, ὡσ ὁ Θηβαῖοσ Ἐπαμεινώνδασ εἶπεν, ὑπὲρ πατρίδοσ καὶ τάφων καὶ ἱερῶν ἐπιδιδόντεσ ἑαυτοὺσ τοῖσ καλλίστοισ καὶ λαμπροτάτοισ ἀγῶσιν. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 7 1:3)
  • κλῦθ’ Ἀλαλά, Πολέμου θύγατερ, ἐγχέων προοίμιον, ᾇ θύεται ἄνδρεσ τὸν ἱρόθυτον θάνατον,’ ὡσ ὁ Θηβαῖοσ Ἐπαμεινώνδασ εἶπεν, ὑπὲρ πατρίδοσ καὶ τάφων καὶ ἱερῶν ἐπιδιδόντεσ ἑαυτοὺσ τοῖσ καλλίστοισ καὶ λαμπροτάτοισ ἀγῶσιν. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 7 2:2)

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

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