ἀλάομαι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰλ], Ep. 3pl. [[ἀλόωνται]], imper. [[ἀλόω]] (v. infr.), used by Hom. mostly in contr. forms [[ἀλᾶσθε]], [[ἀλώμενος]], impf. [[ἠλώμην]], Ep. [[ἀλᾶτο]]: fut. [[ἀλήσομαι]] (ἀπ-) <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>409</span> <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[ἀπαλήσατο]]): Ep. aor. ἀλήθην <span class="bibl">Od.14.120</span>, <span class="bibl">362</span>, Dor. part. ἀλᾱθείς <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>870</span>: pf. [[ἀλάλημαι]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]): (ἄλη):—[[wander]], [[roam]], οἷά τε ληιστῆρες..τοί τ' ἀλόωνται ψυχὰς παρθέμενοι <span class="bibl">Od.3.73</span>; ὅδε τις δύστηνος ἀλώμενος ἐνθάδ' ἱκάνει <span class="bibl">6.206</span>; μὴ πάθωμέν τι ἀλώμενοι <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.97</span>; αἰσχρῶς ἀλῶμαι <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>98</span>; [[ἄσιτος]] [[νηλίπους]] τ' ἀλωμένη <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>349</span>: esp. to [[be outcast]], [[be banished]], ib.<span class="bibl">444</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.2.102</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.6.30</span>, <span class="bibl">D.19.310</span>; [[ἐκσέθεν]] by thee, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1363</span>: —freq. with Preps., ἀνὰ στρατὸν οἶοι ἀλᾶσθε <span class="bibl">Il.10.141</span>; κὰπ πεδίον..οἶος ἀλᾶτο <span class="bibl">6.201</span>; πολλὰ βροτῶν ἐπὶ ἄστἐ ἀλώμενος <span class="bibl">Od.15.492</span>; γῆς ἐπ' ἐσχάτοις ὅροις <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span> 666</span>; ἐπὶ ξένης χώρας <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>300</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Isoc.4.168</span>; οὕτω νῦν..ἀλόω κατὰ πόντον <span class="bibl">Od.5.377</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>870</span>; νομάδεσσι γὰρ ἐν Σκύθαις ἀλᾶται <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>942</span>: c. acc. loci, [[ἀλάομαι γῆν]] = [[wander over the land]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1686</span>; πορθμοὺς ἀ. μυρίους <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>532</span>; οὔρεα <span class="bibl">Theoc.13.66</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> c. gen., [[wander away from]], [[miss]] a thing, εὐφροσύνας ἀλᾶται <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>1.58</span>; ψυχὴν ἀλᾶται τῆς πάροιθ' εὐπραξίας <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>640</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., [[wander in mind]], [[be perplexed]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>23</span>.</span>