ἁλῷ (halo)

ἁλῷ is an Ancient Greek form of ἁλίσκομαι, meaning “be captured, be caught”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of ἅλως, “threshing-floor; grain on the floor”.

Found 87 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.46.3: καὶ αὐτοὺς ἐς τὴν νῆσον οἱ στρατηγοὶ τὴν Πτυχίαν ἐς φυλακὴν διεκόμισαν ὑποσπόνδους, μέχρι οὗ Ἀθήναζε πεμφθῶσιν, ὥστ᾽, ἐάν τις ἁλῷ ἀποδιδράσκων, ἅπασι λελύσθαι τὰς σπονδάς.

Euripides, Hippolytus 420: ὡς μήποτ’ ἄνδρα τὸν ἐμὸν αἰσχύνασ’ ἁλῶ,

Plutarch, De Defectu Oraculorum 15: … ω Πυλῶν πάντας Ἕλληνας ἡ πόλις κατοργιάζουσα μέχρι Τεμπῶν ἐλήλακεν. ἥ τε γὰρ ἱσταμένη καλιὰς ἐνταῦθα περὶ τὴν ἅλω διʼ ἐννέα ἐτῶν οὐ φωλεώδης τοῦ δράκοντος χειά, ἀλλὰ μίμημα τυραννικῆς ἢ βασιλικῆς ἐστιν οἰκήσεως· ἥ τε μετὰ σ …

All forms of ἁλίσκομαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.