ἁλίσκομαι
haliskomaiVerbG6226
to capture
Full Lexicon Entry
1.to be taken, conquered, of persons and places, (Homer), etc.; *ἁλίσκεσθαι εἰς πολεμίους *to fall into the hands of the enemy, (Plato Philosophus)
2.to be caught, seized, *θανάτῳ ἁλῶναι *or without θανάτῳ, to die, (Homer); *ἑάλωσαν εἰς Ἀθήνας γράμματα *letters were seized and taken to Athens, (Xenophon Historicus)
3.in good sense, to be won, achieved, attained, (Sophocles Tragicus), etc.
4.with participle to be caught or detected doing a thing, (Herdotus Historicus); *ἐὰν ἁλῷς τοῦτο πράττων *(Plato Philosophus); also with a Substantive or adjective, the participle *ὤν *being omitted, *οὐ γὰρ δὴ φονεὺς ἁλώσομαι *(Sophocles Tragicus)
5.as attic law-term, to be convicted and condemned, (Plato Philosophus):—.
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