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ἀλήτ-ης [α^], ον, Dor. ἀλάτας , α, ὁ; voc.
A.“ἀλῆτα” S.OC1096, Dor. ἀλᾶτα ib.165: (ἀλάομαι):—wanderer, vagabond, Hom. only in Od., always of beggars (17.420, al.); in Trag. also of exiles, A.Ag.1282, Ch.1042, S.OC50, 746, E.Heracl.224, Supp.280 (lyr.):—τὸν μακρῶν ἀλάταν πόνων one who has wandered in long labour, S.Aj.888.
2. as Adj., vagrant, roving, “πόδ᾽ ἀλάταν” E.El.139 (anap.); “βίος ἀλήτης” Hdt.3.52; in later Prose, “ἄνδρες” D.Chr.1.9:—so also fem. ἀλῆτις , ιδος, D.P.490 (as v.l.); name of song in honour of Erigone, Ath.14.618e, Poll.4.55, Hsch.s.v.; cf. “ἐώρα” 11.
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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