ἥλατο (helato)

ἥλατο is an Ancient Greek form of ἀλάομαι, meaning “wander”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

It can also be a form of ἅλλομαι, “leap, spring”.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.2.71: … ιαδοθέντος λόγου, ἢ ἀγαλμάτιόν τι ἢ σηκὸν οἷα θεοῦ· καὶ γὰρ πλούσιον εἶναι. πῶς οὖν, φησὶν, εἰς τοὺς κρατῆρας ἥλατο ὧν 〈ὡσ〉 σύνεγγυς ὄντων οὐδὲ μνείαν ποτὲ ἐπεποίητο; τετελεύτηκεν οὖν ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ.

Strabo, Geography 1.2.31: … φθησαν αὐτῷ, καὶ ἑκούσιοι χρηματισμοῦ χάριν· φησὶ γὰρ ὁ Νέστωρ ὣς ὁ μὲν ἔνθα πολὺν βίοτον καὶ χρυσὸν ἀγείρων, ἠλᾶτο ξὺν νηυσί· Κύπρον Φοινίκην τε καὶ Αἰγυπτίους ἐπαληθείς.

All forms of ἀλάομαι (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.