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ἄλαστος , ον, (cf. ἄληστος): (ἀ- priv., λαθεῖν, λήθομαι): —
A.not to be forgotten. insufferable, πένθος, ἄχος, Il.24.105, Od.4.108, Hes.Th.467, cf. Alcm.23, A.Pers.990; “ἔπαθον ἄλαστα” S.OC538: Sup. “-ότατον, πῆμα” IG12 (5). 64 (Naxos); neut. as Adv., ἄλαστον ὀδύρομαι I wail inconsolably, Od.14.174, cf. B.3.34.
2. of persons, as in Il.22.261, where Achilles calls Hector ἄλαστε thou whom I will never forget nor forgive!; accursed wretch, S.OC1482; πατρὸς . . ἄ. αἷμα ib. 1672, cf. Mim. Oxy.413.60.—Poet. and late Prose, Dempoh.Sent. 13: used by Trag. only in lyr.
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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