The corpus record

ἅλ-ωσις

alosis · ἡ

capture, conquest, means of conquest

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Where it lives

Third Philippic 1 · 2.35/10k
Against Eubulides 1 · 2.18/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
History 2 · 0.13/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἅλ-ωσις · hal-ōsis — LSJ

capture, conquest, means of conquest

capture, Pi. O. 10(11).42, Hdt. 1.5, 3.156, A. Ag. 589, etc.; δαΐων ἅ. conquest by enemy, Id. Th. 119: means of conquest, S. Ph. 61.

2 taking, catching, without power to escape

taking, catching of birds and fish, Arist. HA 593a20, 600a3 (pl.); ἑαλωκότες ἰσχυρὰν ἅλωσιν taken without power to escape, Plu. Num. 15.

II conviction

law-term, conviction, Pl. Lg. 920a, D.C. Fr. 97.3.

In the wild

ἁλώσει · halōsei Aristophanes, Frogs (DIORISIS sentence 477)
ἁλώσεως · halōseōs Demosthenes, Against Eubulides 20 (DIORISIS sentence 53)
ἁλώσεως · halōseōs Demosthenes, Third Philippic 60 (DIORISIS sentence 163)
ἁλώσεως · halōseōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.17 (DIORISIS sentence 2116)
ἁλώσεως · halōseōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.7 (DIORISIS sentence 7973)
ἁλώσεως · halōseōs Euripides, Hecuba *polumh/stwr (DIORISIS sentence 646)

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