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ἁλ-ώσι^μος , ον, (ἁλῶναι)
A.easy to take or conquer, of places and persons, Hdt.3.153, E.Hel.1622, Th.4.9: metaph., easily beguiled, X. Mem.3.11.11.
2. of the mind, easy to apprehend, S.Ph.863 (lyr.).
3. capable of solution, “ἀπόκρισις” Aristid.2.275J.
II. (ἅλωσις) of or belonging to capture or conquest, παιὰν ἁ. song of triumph on taking city, A.Th.635; βάξις ἁ. tidings of capture, Ag.10.
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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    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 10
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    • Euripides, Helen, 1622
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.153
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 863
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.9
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