II. esp. sacred grove, Od.6.291, Hes.Sc.99, Hdt.5.119, Pl.Lg.761c, etc.:—hence, any hallowed precinct, even without trees, Il.2.506, Sch.Pi.O.3.31, cf. B.3.19, S.Ant.844; Μαραθώνιον ἄ., of the field of battle, viewed as a holy place, A.Eleg.4: metaph., πόντιον ἄ. the ocean-plain, B.16.85, A.Pers.111. (Perh. for ἄλτ-ιος (cf. Ἄλτις), i.e. alq-ios, cf. Goth. alhs 'temple'.)
ἄλσος , εος, τό,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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