ἄλλως (allos)

Where it lives

Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution 1 · 18.08/10k
Letter 1 1 · 17.12/10k
Against Alcibiades 2 1 · 16.64/10k
Against Simon 3 · 13.77/10k
Third Olynthiac 3 · 12.74/10k
Against Ergocles 1 · 10.99/10k
Defense in the Matter of the Olive Stump 2 · 9.88/10k
Crito 4 · 9.59/10k
Hippias Minor 4 · 9.18/10k
De Memoria et Reminiscentia 2 · 8.32/10k
To Philip 7 · 7.99/10k
Letter 2 1 · 7.84/10k

Densest 12 of 161 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἄλλως · allōs — LSJ

otherwise, in, other way, in, other wise

otherwise, Il. 19.401, etc.: freq. with other Advbs., ἄ. πως in some other way, ἄ. οὐδαμῶς in no other wise, Pl. R. 343b, 526a, etc.; πως ἄ. X. Mem. 2.6.39; ἄ. καὶ ἄ. Hierocl. in CA 23p.468M.

2 besides

καὶ ἄλλως and besides (cf. ἄλλος II.8), ἀγήνωρ ἐστὶ καὶ ἄλλως Il. 9.699; a woman is described as very tall καὶ ἄ. εὐειδής Hdt. 1.60, etc.; ἀρίστου καὶ ἄ. φρονιμωτάτου Pl. Phd. 118a:—so ἄ. δέ . . Hdt. 6.105, Ar. Av. 1476; ἄλλως τε S. OT 1114, Hdt. 8.142.

b at all events, any how

at all events, any how, εἴ πέρ γε καὶ ἄ. ἐθέλει . . Hdt. 7.16.γʹ; ἄλλως alone, εἰ ἄ. βούλοιτο Id. 8.30; ἐπείπερ ἄλλως . . εἰς Ἄργος κίεις A. Ch. 680.

3 both otherwise and, especially, above all, especially

freq. in phrase ἄλλως τε καί . . both otherwise and . . , i.e. especially, above all, A. Eu. 473, Th. 1.70, etc.; strengthd., ἄ. τε πάντως καί . . A. Pr. 636, Eu. 726; freq. followed by ἤν, εἰ, ἐπειδή, especially if . . , Hp. VC 21, Th. 1.81, 2.3; by part., Id. 4.104, 7.80:—without καί, ἄ. τε ἐάν X. Mem. 1.2.59; ἄλλως τε ἐπειδή Isoc. 2.51, Pl. Men. 85e, etc.

II otherwise than, differently, otherwise, so

otherwise than something implied, differently, τοῦτʼ οὐκ ἔστιν ἄ. εἶπαι to deny it, Hdt. 6.124; οὐκ ἄ. λέγω I say no otherwise, i.e. I say so, E. Hec. 302: hence,

2 far otherwise, better

far otherwise, i.e. better, οὐδέ κεν ἄλλως οὐδὲ θεὸς τεύξειε Od. 8.176, cf. Il. 14.53.

3 otherwise than should be, at random, without aim or purpose, in vain, mere, in vain, in no particular way, concerning indifferent matters, otherwise, generally, for nothing, otherwise than right, wrongly

more freq., otherwise than should be, at random, without aim or purpose, Od. 14.124, Hdt. 3.16, 4.77, etc.:—in vain, Il. 23.144; freq. in Trag. and Com., ἀλλʼ ἄ. πονεῖ S. OT 1151, cf. 333, E. Med. 1030, Ar. Eq. 11; with Subst., εἴδωλον ἄ. mere image, S. Ph. 947; ἀριθμὸν ἄ. E. Tr. 476; παρὰ καιρὸν ἄ. Id. IA 800; ἀριθμός, πρόβατʼ ἄ. Ar. Nu. 1203; ὄχλος ἄ. καὶ βασκανία D. 19.24, cf. Th. 8.78; τὴν ἄ., sc. ἄγουσαν ὁδόν, in vain, λέγειν D. 3.21; ψηφίζεσθαι 19.181, cf. Philem. 51, etc.; also, in no par

In the wild

ἄλλως · allōs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1315–1316
ἄλλως · allōs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 500–502
ἄλλως · allōs Aeschylus, Eumenides 473–474
ἄλλως · allōs Aeschylus, Eumenides 725–726
ἄλλως · allōs Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 679–682
ἄλλως · allōs Aeschylus, Persians 688–690

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἄλλος (scan pp. 119-120; entry #386).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἄλλος (scan p. 77; entry #400).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἄλλος (scan pp. 106-107; entry #374).

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