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ἀλάλημαι

alalemai

wander, roam about

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Where it lives

Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Odyssey 14 · 1.61/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἀλάλημαι · alalēmai — LSJ

wander, roam about

wander, roam about, like a beggar, Hom. mostly in Od., 2.370, 15.10, etc.; of seamen, μαψιδίως ἀλάλησθε 3.72, cf. 313; of a departed spirit, ἀ. ἀνʼ εὐρυπυλὲς Ἄϊδος δῶ Il. 23.74; of things, μυρία λυγρὰ κατʼ ἀνθρώπους ἀλάληται Hes. Op. 100 :—once Trag., in plpf., ἀλάληντο E. Andr. 306 (lyr.).

In the wild

ἀλάλησαι · alalēsai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.5 (DIORISIS sentence 3322)
ἀλάληται · alalētai Works and Days 98–100
ἀλάλημαι · alalēmai Iliad 23.74
ἀλάλημαι · alalēmai Odyssey 11.167
ἀλάλησθαι · alalēsthai Odyssey 12.284
ἀλαλήμενος · alalēmenos Odyssey 13.333

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