ἀγχόνη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, ([[ἄγχω]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[rope]] for [[hanging]], [[noose]], [[strangling]], [[hanging]], ἀγχόνης . . τέρματα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>746</span>; <b class="b3">ἔργα κρείσσον' ἀγχόνης</b> [[deed]]s too [[bad]] for [[hanging]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1374</span>; <b class="b3">τάδ' ἀγχόνης πέλας</b> 'tis nigh as [[bad]] as [[hanging]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Heracl.</span>246</span>; ταῦτ' οὐχὶ . . ἀγχόνης ἔστ' ἄξια <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ba.</span>246</span>; ταῦτα . . οὐκ ἀ. <b class="b2">;</b> <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>125</span>; οἱ δ' ἀγχόνην ἥψαντο <span class="bibl">Semon.1.18</span>: rare in Prose, ἀ. καὶ λύπη <span class="bibl">Aeschin.2.38</span>:— in pl., ἐν ἀγχόναις θάνατον λαβεῖν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>200</span>, cf. ib.<span class="bibl">299</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">HF</span>154</span>; αἱ ἀ. μάλιστα τοῖς νέοις <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>954b35</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> = [[μανδραγόρας]], Ps.-Dsc. 4.75.</span>

|mdlsjtxt=[[ἄγχω]]<br />a [[throttling]], [[strangling]], [[hanging]], Trag., etc.; ἔργα κρείσσον' ἀγχόνης deeds [[beyond]] (i.e. too bad for) [[hanging]], Soph.; τάδ' ἀγχόνης [[πέλας]] 'tis [[nigh]] as bad as [[hanging]], Eur.; in pl., ἐν ἀγχόναις θάνατον [[λαβεῖν]] to die by [[hanging]], Eur.