The corpus record

ἁλιόω

alioo

make fruitless, disappoint

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Where it lives

Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἁλιόω · halioō — LSJ

make fruitless, disappoint, did he hurl, in vain, spake, in vain

make fruitless, disappoint, Διὸς νόον . . ἁλιῶσαι Od. 5.104; οὐδʼ ἁλίωσε βέλος nor did he hurl the spear in vain, Il. 16.737; οὐχ ἡλίωσε τοὔπος spake not word in vain, S. Tr. 258.

2 destroy

destroy, τὸ μέν τις οὐ . . ἁλιώσει Id. OC 704.

In the wild

ἁλίωσε · haliōse Iliad 16.737
ἁλιῶσαι · haliōsai Odyssey 5.104
ἁλιῶσαι · haliōsai Odyssey 5.138
ἁλιώσει · haliōsei Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 702
ἡλίωσε · hēliōse Sophocles, Trachiniae 258–259

Where it came from

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