O that! would God!
O that! would God! c. opt., Alcm. 26, Call. Hec. Fr. 254.2 Pf. [updated ref.]; cf. ἄβαλε.
The corpus record
βάλε
bale
O that! would God!
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.