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ἄλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλη ἄλης

Structure: ἀλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. ceaseless wandering
  2. wandering of mind, distraction
  3. such as keep men wandering

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

  • ἑτέραν τίθεται πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ μάχην περὶ ταῖσ ἁλαῖσ μείζονα τῆσ προτέρασ, ἣν εὐπετῶσ ἐνίκησε, καὶ τὰσ ἁλὰσ ἐξ ἐκείνου κατεῖχεν ἀναμφιλόγωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 41 5:1)
  • οἱ δ’ εἰσ χεῖρασ μὲν ἐδέξαντο, ἔπειτα δὲ οἱ μὲν ἐξεώσθησαν εἰσ τὸν ἐν ταῖσ Ἁλαῖσ πηλόν, οἱ δὲ ἐνέκλιναν· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 40:4)
  • ἐφεξῆσ τοίνυν ταῖσ Ἁλαῖσ, εἰσ ἃσ κατέληγεν ἡ Βοιωτιακὴ παραλία ἡ πρὸσ Εὐβοίᾳ, τὸν Ὀπούντιον κόλπον κεῖσθαι συμβαίνει. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 4 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. ceaseless wandering

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

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