ἀλέω, [ᾰ]:
imperfect
__A ἤλουν[[ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 10.1] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἤλεσα[[ [prev. author] 183, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ συρίγγων” 7, “Steril.” 230, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect ἄλεσσα (κατ-) [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.109] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect ἀλήλεκα[[ “Anthologia Graeca” 11.251 (1st c.AD: Nicarchus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, perfect ἀλήλεσμαι[[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.76, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.23; ἀλήλεμαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.26, Amph. 9] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἠλέσθην[[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.120] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—grind, bruise, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in _compound_ κατ-αλέω] Refs 8th c.BC+], which see; ἤλουν τὰ σιτία Pherecr.[same place]; βίος ἀληλεμένος civilized life, in which one uses ground corn and not law fruits, Amph. [same place]; ἄλει, μύλα, ἄλει grind, mill, grind ! Carm. Pop.[[ 43: _metaphorically_, ὀψὲ θεῶν ἀλέουσι μύλαι, ἀλέουσι δὲ λεπτά poetical cited in 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.287.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]