Same entry in other lexica; references at Photius omicron209 Theodoridis, where the editor cites nineteenth-century scholarship which linked these entries with o)li/g' a)/tq' in Aristophanes, Wasps 55.
On the neuter plural indefinite pronoun a)/ssa -- here Attic a)/tta -- see alpha 4122, alpha 4304.
The phrase is also used by historians and Christian writers.