ἄλγος, εος, τό,
[[(5th c.AD: Cypria ] Refs 5th c.AD+], ={ὀδύνη}, [[ “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 1095)] Refs] pain of body, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.394, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 734, 1379] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀ. καρδίης, ποδῶν, κεφαλᾶς, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 7.20, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.3, “IG” 4.953.52 (Epidd.); in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] mostly in plural, sufferings, ἄλγεα τεύχει[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.110; ἄ. πάσχων 2.667, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 95. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 pain of mind, grief, frequently in plural, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.2, 2.39, +others: _sing._, ἄλγος ἱκάνει θυμόν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.97, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.41, etc.; τὴν δ᾽ ἅμα χάρμα καὶ ἄ. ἕλε φρένα 19.471; ἄ. ἀεικέλιον 14.32; τὰ κύντατ᾽ ἄλγη κακῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 807] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὑπ᾽ ἄλγους from pain, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 183] Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἰσχύνας ἐμᾶς ὑπ᾽ ἀλγέων from grief for my shame, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 201; ἄ. καρδίας LXX.Sir.26.6. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__II later, anything that causes pain, [[ 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus 2.11, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.390 (Menecrates Comicus), 5.166 (3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus); τοῦ ἄ. θιγεῖν 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 2.9.] Refs 3rd c.BC+]