Ancient Greek citations of ἀλλήλων (allḗlōn)
Pronoun: "one another, each other"
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800 BCE – 600 BCE,
Homer,
Iliad 4.62–63:
- ἀλλ' ἤτοι μὲν ταῦθ' ὑποείξομεν ἀλλήλοισι, / σοὶ μὲν ἐγώ, σὺ δ’ ἐμοί·
- all' ḗtoi mèn taûth' hupoeíxomen allḗloisi, / soì mèn egṓ, sù d’ emoí;
- Anyway, let's yield herein to one another, / I to you, and you to me.
800 BCE – 600 BCE,
Homer,
Odyssey 1.209:
- ἐπεὶ θαμὰ τοῖον ἐμισγόμεθ' ἀλλήλοισιν
- epeì thamà toîon emisgómeth' allḗloisin
- For very often did we mingle with each other.
472 BCE,
Aeschylus,
The Persians 188-189:
- τούτω στάσιν τιν', ὡς ἐγὼ 'δόκουν ὁρᾶν, / τεύχειν ἐν ἀλλήλαισι·
- toútō stásin tin', hōs egṑ 'dókoun horân, / teúkhein en allḗlaisi;
- 1926 translation by H.W. Smyth
- The two, as I imagined it, seemed / to provoke each other to a mutual feud