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ἄλγος , εος, τό, (Cypr.,
A.= ὀδύνη, AB1095) pain of body, Il.5.394, S. Ph.734, 1379; ἀ. καρδίης, ποδῶν, κεφαλᾶς, Hp.Epid.7.20, X.Cyn.3.3, IG4.953.52 (Epidd.); in Hom. mostly in pl., sufferings, “ἄλγεα τεύχει” Il.1.110; “ἄ. πάσχων” 2.667, cf. Alc.95.
2. pain of mind, grief, freq. in pl., Il.1.2, 2.39, al.: sg., “ἄλγος ἱκάνει θυμόν” Il.3.97, cf. Od. 2.41, etc.; “τὴν δ᾽ ἅμα χάρμα καὶ ἄ. ἕλε φρένα” 19.471; “ἄ. ἀεικέλιον” 14.32; “τὰ κύντατ᾽ ἄλγη κακῶν” E.Supp.807; ὑπ᾽ ἄλγους from pain, A.Eu. 183; αἰσχύνας ἐμᾶς ὑπ᾽ ἀλγέων from grief for my shame, E.Hel.201; “ἄ. καρδίας” LXX Si.26.6.
II. later, anything that causes pain, Bion 2.11, AP9.390 (Menecr.), 5.166 (Asclep.); “τοῦ ἄ. θιγεῖν” Aret.SD2.9.
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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