A.“ἁλὸς πολιοῖο” Il.20.229), sea (generally of shallow water near shore), “εἰς ἅλα δῖαν” Il.1.141; “χεῖρας νιψάμενος πολιῆς ἁλός” in sea-water, Od.2.261; “ἢ ἁλὸς ἢ ἐπὶ γῆς” 12.27: sts. pleonast. “πόντος ἁλός” Il.21.59, Thgn.10; ἁλὸς πελάγη or πέλαγος, Od.5.335, h.Ap. 73, E.Tr.88; “πελαγίαν ἅλα” A.Pers.427; “παρ᾽ ἁλμυρὰν ἅλα” E.Ba.17; in pl. (with a pun on ἅλς A), Ar.Ach.760.—Poet. word: nom. only Emp.56. (Cf. Lat. sal: both masc. and fem. are from the same root.)
ἅλς (B), ἁλός [α^], ἡ （
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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