πότμος

English (LSJ)

ὁ, (πίπτω) poet. word,

   A that which befalls one, lot, destiny:    1 in Hom. always of evil destiny, esp. of death; of the killer, πότμον ἐφῆκε, ἐφήσω, Il.4.396, Od.19.550; or of the killed, πότμον ἐπισπεῖν Il.6.412, Od.2.250, al.; θάνατον καὶ π. ἐπισπεῖν Il.2.359, 20.337, al.; also θανέειν καὶ πότμον ἐπισπεῖν 7.52, Od.4.562, al.; ὀλόμην καὶ πότμον ἐπέσπον 11.197; αἴ κε θάνῃς καὶ πότμον ἀναπλήσῃς βιότοιο Il.4.170, cf. 11.263; also πότμον ἐφάψαι, = π. ἐφεῖναι, Pi.O. 9.60, cf. B.5.158, etc.; πότμον ἀμπιπλάντες ὁμοῖον, of the Dioscuri who lived on alternate days, Pi.N.10.57.    2 after Hom. without a sense of evil, π. συγγενής one's natural gifts, ib.5.40; εὐτυχεῖ π. A.Pers.709; καλλίπαις π. Id.Ag.762 (lyr.), cf. 1005 (lyr.); π. ξυνήθης πατρός my father's customary fortune, S.Tr.88; π. ἄποτμος E.Hipp. 1143 (lyr.); τίνα ποτ' Ἠλέκτρα πότμον εἴληχε βιότου; Id.IT913; θανεῖν ζηλωτὸς ἐν Ἑλλάδι π. Arist.Fr.Lyr.6.4.    II personified, Destiny, ὁ μέγας Π. Pi.P.3.86. [The first syll. long in Hom., but sts. short in later poets, IG9(1).871 (Corc., iii B.C.), Orph.A.1291; commonly short in Trag., but long in S.Tr.88, Fr.871.1.]