ἥλω (helo)

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

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.10.110: … ς αὐτὸν ἡμῶν οὕτως ἔχον· οὐκ ἆρα μῦθος ἦν ἐκεῖνος εἰκαῖος, ὡς ἀτυχής τις ἐὼν τὸν πόδα κολυμβῶν περιέπειρέ πως ἥλῳ. καὶ γὰρ ὁ σεμνὸς ἀνήρ, πρὶν Ἀλφεόν ποτʼ ἐκπερᾶν, Ἀλεξῖνος θνῆσκε νυγεὶς καλάμῳ. γέγραφε δʼ οὐ μόνον πρὸς Ζήν …

Plutarch, Camillus 30.1: οὕτω μὲν ἡ Ῥώμη παραλόγως ἥλω καὶ παραλογώτερον ἐσώθη, μῆνας ἑπτὰ τοὺς πάντας ὑπὸ τοῖς βαρβάροις γενομένη, παρελθόντες γὰρ εἰς αὐτὴν ὀλίγαι …

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.