A.“ἤλουν” Pherecr.10.1: aor. “ἤλεσα” Id.183,Hp.Fist. 7, Steril.230, etc.; Ep. ἄλεσσα （κατ-) Od.20.109: pf. “ἀλήλεκα” AP11.251 (Nicarch.):—Pass., pf. “ἀλήλεσμαι” Hp. ap. Gal.19.76, Hdt.7.23; “ἀλήλεμαι” Th.4.26, Amph.9: aor. “ἠλέσθην” Dsc.1.120:—grind, bruise, Hom. only in compd. κατ-αλέω, q. v.; ἤλουν τὰ σιτία Pherecr.l.c.; βίος ἀληλεμένος civilized life, in which one uses ground corn and not law fruits, Amph. l.c.; ἄλει, μύλα, ἄλει grind, mill, grind ! Carm. Pop.43: metaph., ὀψὲ θεῶν ἀλέουσι μύλαι, ἀλέουσι δὲ λεπτά Poet. ap. S.E.M.1.287.
ἀλέω (A), [α^]: impf.
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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