A.avoiding, escape, “ἐγγύθι μοι θάνατος . . οὐδ᾽ ἀλέη” Il.22.301 (not in Od.); “οὐκ ἔστιν ἀ. οὐδὲ σκέπη” Hp.Aër.19: c.gen., shelter from athing, “ὑετοῦ” Hes. Op.545.—Ep.and Ion. word. ἀλέα (B), [α^λ], Ion. ἀλέη , ἡ, contr. “ἀλῆ” Androm. ap. Gal.14.33, cj. in Babr.18.11 :—warmth, heat, of fire, Od.17.23 (not in Il.), Jul.Mis.341c; generally, warmth, or warm spot, “ἐν ἀλέῃ γενέσθαι” Hp.VM16, cf. Diocl.Fr.141; “ἐσενεγκὼν ἐς ἀ.” Hp.Aër.8; “χρέεσθαι περιπάτοις ἐν ἀ.” Id.Vict.3.68; “ἐν ἀ. κατακείμενος” Ar.Ec.541; ἀλέας καὶ ψύχους in heat and cold, Pl.Erx.401d, cf. Arist.EN1148a8; πνῖγος καὶ ἀ. Id.Metaph.1026b34; ἐν ταῖς ἀ. in the hot season, Id.Pr.939b9: later, animal, bodily heat, Plu.2.131d, Ael.NA3.20, Aristid.Or.48 (24).22; generally, source of warmth, τὸ ἔριον ἡμῖν κόσμος καὶ ἀ. Porph.Abst.1.21, etc.: in pl., fomentations, Alex. Trall.Febr.3.
ἀλέα (A), [α^λ], Ion. ἀλέη , ἡ, (ἄλη, ἀλέομαι)
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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