ὀλέθριος
οὐκ ἐπιλογιζόμενος ὅτι ἅμα μὲν ὀδύρῃ τὴν ἀναισθησίαν, ἅμα δὲ ἀλγεῖς ἐπὶ σήψεσι καὶ στερήσει τῶν ἡδέων, ὥσπερ εἰς ἕτερον ζῆν ἀποθανούμενος, ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ εἰς παντελῆ μεταβαλῶν ἀναισθησίαν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν τῇ πρὸ τῆς γενέσεως → you do not consider that you are at one and the same time lamenting your want of sensation, and pained at the idea of your rotting away, and of being deprived of what is pleasant, as if you are to die and live in another state, and not to pass into insensibility complete, and the same as that before you were born
English (LSJ)
ον, E.Hec.1084 (lyr.), Pl.Ep.334d ; but α, ον Hdt.6.112, LXX Wi.18.15, and freq. in Trag. (v. infr.) :—
A destructive, deadly, ὀ. ἦμαρ the day of destruction, Il.19.294,409, cf. ἐλεύθερον ἦμαρ, etc. ; so μανίη πάγχυ ὀ. Hdt.l.c. ; ὀ. μόρος A.Th.704 ; ἔξω κομίζων ὀλεθρίου πηλοῦ πόδα Id.Ch.697 ; κότος ὀ. ib.952 (lyr.) ; ὀλεθρία νύξ S.OC1683 (lyr.), etc. ; ψῆφος ὀλεθρία a vote of death, A.Th.198 : in S.Aj.799, ἔξοδον . . ὀλεθρίαν ἐλπίζει φέρειν seems to be = φέρειν εἰς ὄλεθρον : acc. sg. masc. predicatively used, ἀλλά μ' ἁ . . θεὸς ὀλέθριον αἰκίζει fatally, ib.402 (lyr.) :—rare in Prose, as Pl.R.389d, Gal.16.522 ; νόσοι Phld.Ir.p.57 W. (Sup.). Adv.-ίως Eust.132.16. 2 c.gen., γάμοι Πάριδος ὀλέθριοι φίλων bringing ruin on his friends, A.Ag. 1156 (lyr.). 3 c. dat., as Subst., ψύλλοις ὀλέθριον, name of a fluid, Philum.Ven.12.4. II of persons, in danger of death, Hp.Acut.58 ; lost, undone, S.Tr.878. Adv. -ίως, ἔχειν Gal.16.522, al. 2 rascally, worthless (cf. ὄλεθρος 11 nisi hoc leg.), Luc.DMort. 2.1 codd., Hist.Conscr.38 codd. ὀλεθρ-ιώδης, ες, gloss on λευγαλέη, Hsch.
German (Pape)
[Seite 319] ον, auch 3 Endgn, verderblich, tödtlich; ἦμαρ ὀλέθριον, der Tag des Verderbens, der Todestag, Il. 19, 294. 409; γάμοι Πάριδος ὀλέθριοι φίλων, Aesch. Ag. 1128; ὀλέθριον πνέουσ' ἐν ἐχθροῖς κότον, Ch. 940; fem., ψῆφος ὀλεθρία, Spt. 180; ἔξοδον ὀλεθρίαν Αἴαντος, Soph. Ai. 786; νύξ, O. C. 1680; ὀλέθριον κοίταν, Eur. Hec. 1084; in Prosa, μανίην ὀλεθρίην, Her. 6, 112, ἐπιτήδευμα ὀλέθριον, Plat. Rep. III, 389 d; öfter bei Sp., wie Plut., τινί, Symp. 5, 7, 1. Auch von Menschen, unglücklich, τάλαιν' ὀλεθρία, Soph. Trach. 875, vgl. Ai. 397; auch Luc. Alex. 11; nichtswürdig, D. Mort. 2, 1.
