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ἀλέγω , Ep. and Lyr., once in A. (lyr.), only pres.,
A.have a care, mind, heed, usu. neg.:
1. abs., οὐκ ἀ. have no care, Il.11.389, Od. 17.390; “κύνες οὐκ ἀλέγουσαι” Od.19.154: without neg., Λιταὶ ἀλέγουσι κιοῦσαι walk with good heed, Il.9.504.
II. with a case,
1. c. gen., heed, care for, “οὐδ᾽ ἀλλήλων ἀλέγουσιν” Od.9.115; οὐ γὰρ Κύκλωπες Διὸς . . ἀλέγουσιν ib.275, cf. Simon.37.10; “βωμῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν” A.Supp.752; “μακάρων οὐκ ἀλέγοντα θεῶν” Call.Aet.3.1.65 : without neg., “ψυχῆς ἀ. ὕπερ” A.R.2.634.
2. less freq. c. acc., regard, respect, “θεῶν ὄπιν οὐκ ἀλέγοντες” Il.16.388, Hes.Op.251; “οἰωνούς” A.R. 1.145: without neg., νηῶν ὅπλα . . ἀλέγουσιν take care of, Od.6.268, cf. Pi.O.11 (10).15, I.8(7).51.
III. count among, “Λύκαισον ἐν καμοῦσιν” Alcm.32, cf. Pi.O.2.78 (Pass.); ἐν ἀθανάτοις ἀ. IG14.1389 ii6. (Commonly deriv. from ἀ- copul., λέγω, count with, cf. 111.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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