ἀλήτ-ης[ᾰ],ον , Dor.
ἀλάτας,α , ὁ; voc.
A.
ἀλῆτα
S. OC 1096
, Dor.
ἀλᾶταib. 165 : (ἀλάομαι):—wanderer, vagabond, Hom. only in Od. , always of beggars ( 17.420 , al.); in Trag. also of exiles, A. Ag. 1282 , Ch. 1042 , S. OC 50 , 746 , E. Heracl. 224 , Supp. 280 (lyr.):—τὸν μακρῶν ἀλάταν πόνων one who has wanderedin long labour, S. Aj. 888 .
2. asAdj.,vagrant, roving, πόδ' ἀλάταν
E. El. 139
(anap.); βίος ἀλήτης
Hdt. 3.52
; in later Prose, ἄνδρες
D.Chr. 1.9
:—so also fem.ἀλῆτις,ιδος, D.P. 490 (as v.l.); name of song in honour of Erigone, Ath. 14.618e , Poll. 4.55 , Hsch.s.v.; cf. ἐώρα
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