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ἄλλος

I.alius, another, one besides, ἄλλος μέν . , ἄλλος δέ . , one . , another . , Il.; ἄλλος τις or τὶς ἄλλος, any other, some other; οὐδεὶς ἄλλος no other; εἴ τις ἄλλος, Lat. si quis alius, any one else.
2.repeated, ἄλλος ἄλλο λέγει one man says one thing, one another, i. e. different men say different things; ἄλλος ἄλλῃ ἐτράπετο Xen.; λείπουσι τὸν λόφον ἄλλοι ἄλλοθεν id=Xen.;—v. ἀλλαχῆ.
3.ἄλλος καὶ ἄλλος, one or two; ἄλλο καὶ ἄλλο one thing after another, id=Xen.
4.joined with the Art., ὁ ἄλλος, the other; in pl., οἱ ἄλλοι (ionic ὧλλοι), all the others, the rest; Lat. ceteri; τὰ ἄλλα, contr. τἆλλα or τἄλλα Lat. cetera, reliqua, not alia;— οὕ τε ἄλλοι καὶ . . both all the others and . . , i. e. especially . .
5.with Numerals, yet, still, πέμπτος ποταμὸς ἄλλος yet a fifth river, Hdt.: with a Sup., ὀϊζυρώτατος ἄλλων most wretched of all besides, Od.
II.rarely like ἀλλοῖος, of other sort, different, Il.: hence
2.sometimes like a comp., c. gen., ἄλλα τῶν δικαίων other than just, Xen.; followed by ἤ . . , when a negat. goes before, οὐδὲν ἄλλο, ἤ . . , nothing else than . . , Hdt., etc.

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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