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|Definition=ον, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">death-bringing</b>, αἶσα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>369</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">περίοδος θανατηφόρος</b>: <b class="b2">cycle of mortality</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>617d</span>; of hurts or accidents, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>48</span>; of a surgical operation, Antyll. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.45.17.6</span>; <b class="b3">ῥίζα ἐν Αἰθιοπία</b>, of arrow-poison, <b class="b2">Acokanthera Schimperi</b>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>9.15.2</span>; ὀδύναι <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">PA</span>672a36</span>; <b class="b3">νηλέα δὲ γένεθλα πρὸς πέδῳ θαναταφόρα κεῖται ἀνοίκτως</b> <b class="b2">unpitied, her children lie on the ground, causing death by contagion, with no one to mourn them</b>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>181</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">πᾶσαι μεταβολαὶ πολιτειῶν θ</b>. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>2.3.32</span>; ἁμαρτία <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Nu.</span>18.22</span>; <b class="b3">δίκαι</b> <b class="b2">capital</b> trials, <span class="title">Not.Arch.</span>4.19 (Cyrene, Aug.); ἐπιστολή <span class="bibl">Hdn.4.12.8</span>; περιστάσεις <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.225.7</span>. Adv. -ρως, νοσεῖν Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>2.148S.: neut. sg. as Adv., ἐπλήγη οὐχὶ -φόρον <span class="bibl">Aen.Tact.27.9</span>; but <b class="b3">θανατηφόρον ᾄδειν</b> to <b class="b2">sing a death song</b>, AP11.186 (Nicarch.).</span>