ἀλαός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰλ], όν, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[not seeing]], [[blind]] (Cypr. for [[τυφλός]], <span class="title">AB</span>1095), <span class="bibl">Od.8.195</span>, etc. (not in Il., Trag. only in lyr.); τὸ φωτῶν ἀ. γένος <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>549</span>, [[ἀλαοί]], opp. [[δεδορκότες]], the [[dead]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eu.</span>322</span>; of eyes, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>149</span>, <span class="bibl">244</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1531</span>; [[ἕλκος]] ἀ. = [[blinding]] [[wound]], i. e. [[blindness]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>974</span>; ἐπ ὀφθαλμῶν ἀ. νέφος <span class="bibl">A.R.2.259</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[invisible]], [[imperceptible]], [[φθίσις]] ἀλαή prob. l. in Hp. <span class="title">Loc. Hom.</span>10 (codd. [[ἄλλη]], Gal. [[ἀλαΐα]]). (If from [[ἀ-]] priv., [[λάω]] A ([[quod vide|q.v.]]), the accent is exceptional, but cf. Hdn. Gr. <span class="bibl">1.112</span>.) [ᾰλᾰος Od. l.c., etc.; but [[μάντιος]] ἀλαοῦ init. vers. <span class="bibl">Od.10.493</span>, <span class="bibl">12.267</span>.]</span>