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ἅλως [α^], ἡ, gen.
A.“ἅλω” Hp.VM13, X.Oec.18.8, “ἅλωος” AP6.258 (Adaeus); dat. “ἅλῳ” Arist.Ph.198b22; acc. “ἅλω” A.Th.489, IG2.834b ii 21, “ἅλων” Nic.Th.166, “ἅλωα” Call.Fr.51: pl., nom. “ἅλῳ” Arist.Mete. 344b2, “ἅλωες” Ach.Tat.Intr.Arat.32, “ἅλως” D.42.6, Thphr.Sign.22; acc. “ἅλως” Arist.Mir.835b9, etc.: (v. sub ἀλέω A):—threshing-floor, Hp. l. c., X.l.c., etc.; grain on the floor, PRyl.122.10 (ii A.D.):—hence, from round shape,
II. disk of sun or moon, or shield, A. l.c.: later, halo, Arist.Mete.344b2, Epicur.Ep.2p.51U., Gal.5.640, etc.
2. serpent's coil, Nic.Th.166.
3. bird's nest, Ael.NA 3.16.
4. ciliary body of the eye, Poll.2.71.
5. circular piazza at Delphi, GDI2101, 2642.
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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