ἀλάτας

A. ἀλῆτα S. OC 1096, Dor. ἀλᾶτα ib.165: (ἀλάομαι):—wanderer, vagabond, Hom. only in Od., always of beggars (17.420, al.); in Trag. also of exiles, A. Ag. 1282, Ch. 1042, S. OC 50, 746, E. Heracl. 224, Supp. 280 (lyr.):—τὸν μακρῶν ἀλάταν πόνων one who has wandered in long labour, S. Aj. 888.

2. as Adj., vagrant, roving, πόδ’ ἀλάταν E. El. 139 (anap.); βίος ἀλήτης Hdt. 3.52; in later Prose, ἄνδρες D.Chr. 1.9:—so also fem. ἀλῆτις, ιδος, D.P. 490 (as v.l.); name of song in honour of Erigone, Ath. 14.618e, Poll. 4.55, Hsch.s.v.; cf. ἐώρα 11.