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ἅλως?

Second declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: halōs

Principal Part: ἅλως ἅλω

Structure: ἁλ (Stem) + ως (Ending)

Etym.: ἀλέω; like epic ἁλωή

Sense

  1. a threshing-floor
  2. the disk of sun or moon

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἅλως ἅλω ἅλῳ
Genitive ἅλω ἅλῳν ἅλων
Dative ἅλῳ ἅλῳν ἅλῳς
Accusative ἅλων ἅλω ἅλως
Vocative ἅλως ἅλω ἅλῳ

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

  • "ὡς γὰρ οἱ παῖδες ἴριδας μᾶλλον καὶ ἅλως καὶ κομήτας ἢ σελήνην καὶ ἥλιον ὁρῶντες γεγήθασι καὶ ἀγαπῶσι, καὶ οὗτοι τὰ αἰνίγματα καὶ τὰς ἀλληγορίας καὶ τὰς μεταφορὰς τῆς μαντικῆς ἀνακλάσεις οὔσας πρὸς τὸ θνητὸν καὶ φανταστικόν, ἐπιποθοῦσι κἂν τὴν αἰτίαν μὴ ἱκανῶς πύθωνται τῆς μεταβολῆς, ἀπίασι τοῦ θεοῦ καταγνόντες, οὐχ ἡμῶν οὐδ αὑτῶν ὡς ἀδυνάτων ὄντων ἐξικνεῖσθαι τῷ λογισμῷ πρὸς τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ διάνοιαν. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 303)
  • ἦσαν γὰρ νὴ τοὺς θεοὺς καὶ τὰς θεάς, ἄνδρες δικασταί, δύο ἅλως αὐτόθι, μικροῦ πλέθρου ἑκατέρα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 8:3)
  • ἡ δ ἅλως οὑτωσὶν ἀποτελεῖται : (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 1:1)
  • τοῦ δ ἑτέρου καὶ τοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν μαθημάτων ἀντιποιεῖσθαι, οἱο῀ν πῶς ὁρῶμεν, τίς ἡ αἰτία τῆς κατοπτρικῆς φαντασίας, ὅπως νέφη συνίσταται, βρονταὶ καὶ ἴριδες καὶ ἅλως καὶ κομῆται καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 133:4)
  • "Ἅλως περὶ τὴν σελήνην γίνεται καὶ πάντοθεν ἀέρος προσφερομένου πρὸς τὴν σελήνην ἢ τὰ ἀπ αὐτῆς ῥεύματα ἀποφερόμενα ὁμαλῶς ἀναστέλλοντος ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ἐφ ὅσον κύκλῳ περιστῆσαι τὸ νεφοειδὲς τοῦτο καὶ μὴ τὸ παράπαν διακρῖναι, ἢ καὶ τὸν πέριξ ἀέρα αὐτῆς ἀναστέλλοντος συμμέτρως πάντοθεν εἰς τὸ περιφερὲς τὸ περὶ αὐτὴν καὶ παχυμερὲς περιστῆσαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 110:2)
  • μετὰ ψαλλούσῃς μὴ ἐνδελέχιζε, μήποτε ἁλῷς ἐν τοῖς ἐπιχειρήμασιν αὐτῆς. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 9:4)
  • τί δῆτά σοι τίμημ ἐπιγράψω τῇ δίκῃ, ἐὰν ἁλῷς· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 3:11)

Synonyms

  1. a threshing-floor

  2. the disk of sun or moon

Related

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형용사

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부사

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

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