ὄλεθρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[ruin]], [[destruction]], [[death]], αἰπὺς ὄ. Il.11.174, al.; λυγρὸς ὄ. 10.174, al.; ὄ. ἀδευκής Od.4.489; οἴκτιστος ὄ. 23.79; ἵνα ψυχῆς ὤκιστος ὄ. Il.22.325; [[ὀλέθρου πείρατα]], like [[τέλος]] θανάτοιο, the [[consummation]] of [[death]], 6.143; [[ὄλεθρος]], opp. [[γένεσις]], Parm.8.21, 27; [[οὐκ εἰς ὄλεθρον]]; as an [[imprecation]], [[plague take thee]] S.OT430; [[χρημάτων ὀλέθρῳ]] by [[destruction]] of [[property]]. Th.7.27; εἶναι ἐν ὀλέθρῳ Antipho 1.29; ἐπ' ὀλέθρῳ τῶν χρωμένων E.Ph.534; ἐκκλησιάζειν ἐπ' ὀλέθρῳ Ar.Th.84; οὐκ ἐπὶ δουλείᾳ κολάζοντες οὐδ' ἐπ' ὀλέθρῳ Pl.R. 471a : pl., Phld.Rh.2.140S.<br><span class="bld">II</span> that which [[cause]]s [[destruction]], [[pest]], [[plague]], Hes.Th.326; contemptuously of persons, γεγονὼς κακῶς καὶ ἐὼν ὄ. Hdt.3.142; ὑπὸ γερόντων ὀ. Ar.Lys.325; ὄλεθρος [[ἄνθρωπος]] Eup. 376, cf. Men.533.13; ὄλεθρος [[Μακεδών]], of [[Philip]], D.9.31; ὄλεθρος [[γραμματεύς]] = a [[pestilent]] [[scribe]], of [[Aeschines]], Id.18.127; τὸν βάσκανον, τὸν δ' ὄλεθρον = the [[cheat]], the [[pest]]! Id.21.209; ἀνθρώπους οὐδ' ἐλευθέρους ἀλλ' ὀ. Id.23.202; πολλοὶ ὄλεθροι καὶ μεγάλοι Pl.R.491b.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[seduction]], Ἑλένης E. IA1382 (troch.).