Ἀάλιον

undisciplined

Translated by Anne Mahoney21 Aug 1998Vetting: high10 revisions

1 note · 9 words

[Meaning something] disorderly, powerless.¹
But a(/lion [means] in vain.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀάλιον· ἄτακτον, ἀκρατές. Ἅλιον δὲ τὸ μάταιον.

Betacode

*)aa/lion: a)/takton, a)krate/s. *(/alion de\ to\ ma/taion.

[1] Up to this point the entry = Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 2.14, and Photius, Lexicon alpha6 Theodoridis; cf. also Hesychius alpha17. The headword is unattested outside lexica and grammars (and attested there only in this neuter singular nominative/accusative form, presumably quoted from somewhere). Schwyzer in DGE suggests an etymology from alpha-privative + the root of a(/lis ('sufficient').