ἰάλλω (iallo)

Where it lives

Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Odyssey 19 · 2.19/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Iliad 6 · 0.54/10k

What it meant — LSJ

send forth, they put forth, laid, threw, give, set down, plant

send forth, ὀϊστὸν ἀπὸ νευρῆφιν ἴαλλεν Il. 8.300, 309, cf. AP 5.187 (Leon.): used by Hom. mostly in phrase, ἐπʼ ὀνείατα χεῖρας ἴαλλον they put forth their hands to the dishes, Od. 1.149, al.; ἐπὶ σίτῳ χ. ἰ. 10.376; ἑτάροις ἐπὶ χεῖρας ἴ. laid hands upon his comrades, 9.288; περὶ χερσὶ δὲ δεσμὸν ἴηλα threw chains around thy arms, Il. 15.19; ἐπὶ δεσμὸν ἴηλε Od. 8.447; so later ὑλακήν give tongue, AP 7.69 (Jul.Aegypt.); ἴχνος set down, plant the foot, Nic. Al. 242.

2 assail

c. acc. obj., ἄριστον ἀτιμίῃσιν ἰάλλειν assail him with insults, Od. 13.142.

3 send, dispatch

later, send, dispatch, ἄγγελον Thgn. 573, cf. A. Ch. 45 (lyr.); ἐπὶ Δωδώνης . . θεοπρόπους ἴαλλεν Id. Pr. 659; Δίκην ἴαλλε σύμμαχον Id. Ch. 497; ἄρτον τοῖς παιδίοις Sophr. l.c.; τινὰ παρά τινα Id. 61; Φθίᾳ ἐλεύθερον ἦμαρ ἰ. AP 7.529 (Theodorid.).

4

= εὑρίσκω, Hsch. s. vv. ἰᾶλαι, ἰάλλει.

II send oneself on, flee, run

intr. (sc. ἑαυτόν) send oneself on, i.e. flee, run, Hes. Th. 269. (Cf. Skt. iyarti ‘set in motion’.)

In the wild

ἰάλλει · iallei Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 42–46
ἴαλλε · ialle Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 497–499
ἴαλλεν · iallen Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 658–660
ἴαλλον · iallon Theogony 269
ἴηλα · iēla Iliad 15.19
ἴαλλον · iallon Iliad 24.627

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Where it came from

Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἰάλλω (scan p. 466; entry #3288).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἰάλλω (scan pp. 735-736; entry #2534).

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