ὄλεθρος

English (LSJ)

ὁ,

   A ruin, destruction, death, αἰπὺς ὄ. Il.11.174, al. ; λυγρὸς ὄ. 10.174, al. ; ὄ. ἀδευκής Od.4.489 ; οἴκτιστος ὄ. 23.79 ; ἵνα ψυχῆς ὤκιστος ὄ. Il.22.325 ; ὀλέθρου πείρατα, like τέλος θανάτοιο, the consummation of death, 6.143 ; ὄ., opp. γένεσις, Parm.8.21, 27 ; οὐκ εἰς ὄλεθρον ; as an imprecation, plague take thee! S.OT430 ; χρημάτων ὀλέθρῳ by destruction of property. Th.7.27 ; εἶναι ἐν ὀλέθρῳ Antipho 1.29 ; ἐπ' ὀλέθρῳ τῶν χρωμένων E.Ph.534 ; ἐκκλησιάζειν ἐπ' ὀλέθρῳ Ar.Th.84 ; οὐκ ἐπὶ δουλείᾳ κολάζοντες οὐδ' ἐπ' ὀλέθρῳ Pl.R. 471a : pl., Phld.Rh.2.140S.    II that which causes destruction, pest, plague, Hes.Th.326 ; contemptuously of persons, γεγονὼς κακῶς καὶ ἐὼν ὄ. Hdt.3.142 ; ὑπὸ γερόντων ὀ. Ar.Lys.325 ; ὄ. ἄνθρωπος Eup. 376, cf. Men.533.13 ; ὄ. Μακεδών, of Philip, D.9.31 ; ὄ. γραμματεύς a pestilent scribe, of Aeschines, Id.18.127 ; τὸν βάσκανον, τὸν δ' ὄ. the cheat, the pest! Id.21.209 ; ἀνθρώπους οὐδ' ἐλευθέρους ἀλλ' ὀ. Id.23.202 ; πολλοὶ ὄ. καὶ μεγάλοι Pl.R.491b.    III seduction, Ἑλένης E. IA1382 (troch.).