ὀλέθριος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>1084</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ep.</span>334d</span>; but α, ον <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.112</span>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Wi.</span>18.15</span>, and freq. in Trag. (v. infr.) :—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[destructive]], [[deadly]], <b class="b3">ὀ. ἦμαρ</b> the day [[of destruction]], <span class="bibl">Il.19.294</span>,<span class="bibl">409</span>, cf. <b class="b3">ἐλεύθερον ἦμαρ</b>, etc. ; so <b class="b3">μανίη πάγχυ ὀ</b>. Hdt.l.c. ; ὀ. μόρος <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>704</span>; ἔξω κομίζων ὀλεθρίου πηλοῦ πόδα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ch.</span>697</span>; <b class="b3">κότος ὀ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">952</span> (lyr.) ; ὀλεθρία νύξ <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1683</span> (lyr.), etc. ; <b class="b3">ψῆφος ὀλεθρία</b> a vote [[of death]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>198</span> : in <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>799</span>, <b class="b3">ἔξοδον . . ὀλεθρίαν ἐλπίζει φέρειν</b> seems to be = [[φέρειν εἰς ὄλεθρον]] : acc. sg. masc. predicatively used, <b class="b3">ἀλλά μ' ἁ . . θεὸς ὀλέθριον αἰκίζει</b> [[fatally]], ib.<span class="bibl">402</span> (lyr.) :—rare in Prose, as <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>389d</span>, Gal.16.522 ; νόσοι Phld.<span class="title">Ir.</span>p.57 W. (Sup.). Adv.-ίως <span class="bibl">Eust.132.16</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> c.gen., <b class="b3">γάμοι Πάριδος ὀλέθριοι φίλων</b> [[bringing ruin]] on his friends, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span> 1156</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> c. dat., as Subst., <b class="b3">ψύλλοις ὀλέθριον</b>, name of a fluid, <span class="bibl">Philum.<span class="title">Ven.</span>12.4</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> of persons, [[in danger of death]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span>58</span>; [[lost]], [[undone]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>878</span>. Adv. -ίως, ἔχειν Gal.16.522, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[rascally]], [[worthless]] (cf. ὄλεθρος 11 nisi hoc leg.), <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">DMort.</span> 2.1</span> codd., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Hist.Conscr.</span>38</span> codd. ὀλεθρ-ιώδης, ες, gloss on [[λευγαλέη]], Hsch.</span>