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ἀλοάω , Ep. ἀλοιάω Theoc.10.48: Ep. impf.
A.“ἀλοία” Il.9.568: fut. “-ήσω” LXX Je.5.17, Dor. “ἀλοιησέω” Tyrt. in Berl.Sitzb.1918.728: aor. “ἠλόησα” Ar.Ra.149, Herod.2.34 (ἀλοιήσῃ ib.51), part. ἀλοάσας [α_ς] Pherecr.65; Ep. ἠλοίησα （ἀπ-) Il.4.522, (συν-) Theoc.22.128:—Pass., fut. “-ηθήσομαι” LXX Je.28(51).33: aor. “ἠλοήθην” Thphr.CP4.6.5, Plb.10.12.9, Plu.2.327a: pf. “ἠλόημαι” Thphr. CP4.12.9 (Cod. Urb.):— poet. aor. part. ἀλοίσας (as if from ἀλοίω, cf. Eust.775.8, Hdn.Epim. 277) dub. l. in Epigr. ap. D.L.7.31; ἀλοϝάω dub. in Glotta4.202 (archaic Apulian vase):—tread, thresh, Pl.Thg.124a, X.Oec.18.2, LXX De.25.4.
2. thresh, smite, “γῆν χερσὶν ἀλοία” Il.0.568, cf. Epigr. l.c.; “μηρόν” Plu.TG2; cudgel, thrash, Glotta l. c., S.Fr.20 (dub.), Ar. Ra.149, Herod.2.34; “ῥοπάλῳ τινά” Babr.98.15.
3. crush, smash, “σκεύη” Id.129.16; destroy, “πόλεις” LXX Je.5.17.
II. drive round and round, like cattle treading out corn, Ar.Th.2 (acc. to Sch.).
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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