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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

  • ἀλαλαὶ ἰὴ παιήων· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, lyric3)
  • "ἑορτὰσ δὲ καὶ θυσίασ, ὥσπερ ἡμέρασ ἀποφράδασ καὶ σκυθρωπάσ, ἐν αἷσ ὠμοφαγίαι καὶ διασπασμοὶ νηστεῖαί τε καὶ κοπετοί, πολλαχοῦ δὲ πάλιν αἰσχρολογίαι πρὸσ ἱεροῖσ μανίαι τ’ ἀλαλαὶ τ’ ὀρινόμεναι ῥιψαύχενι σὺν κλόνῳ, θεῶν μὲν οὐδενὶ δαιμόνων δὲ φαύλων ἀποτροπῆσ ἕνεκα φήσαιμ’ ἂν τελεῖσθαι μειλίχια καὶ παραμύθια. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 142)
  • "μανίαι τ’ ἀλαλαὶ τ’ ὀρινομένων ῥιψαύχενι σὺν κλόνῳ κατὰ Πίνδαρον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 13:7)

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

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