perish
From LSJ
ῥεῖα δ' ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ' ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει → easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud (Hesiod, Works and Days 6-8)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb intransitive
be destroyed: διαφθείρεσθαι, φθείρεσθαι, ἀπόλλυσθαι, ἐξόλλυσθαι, διόλλυσθαι, φθίνειν (Plato), οἴχεσθαι (rare P.), ἀναλίσκεσθαι, ἐξαναλίσκεσθαι, V. ἀποφθίνειν, καταφθίνειν.
die: Ar. and P. ἀποθνήσκειν, P. and V. τελευτᾶν, ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι (with or without βίου), ἐκλείπω βίον, ἐκλείπειν βίον (βίον sometimes omitted in P.), V. θνήσκειν (rarely Ar.), κατθανεῖν (2nd aor. καταθνήσκειν) (rarely Ar.); see die.
