ὀλέθριος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὀλέθριον, E.''Hec.''1084 (lyr.), Pl.''Ep.''334d; but α, ον Hdt.6.112, [[LXX]] ''Wi.''18.15, and freq. in Trag. (v. infr.):—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[destructive]], [[deadly]], <b class="b3">ὀ. ἦμαρ</b> the day [[of destruction]], Il.19.294,409, cf. <b class="b3">ἐλεύθερον ἦμαρ</b>, etc.; so <b class="b3">μανίη πάγχυ ὀ.</b> Hdt.l.c.; ὀ. μόρος A.''Th.''704; ἔξω κομίζων ὀλεθρίου πηλοῦ πόδα Id.''Ch.''697; <b class="b3">κότος ὀ.</b> ib.952 (lyr.); ὀλεθρία νύξ S.''OC''1683 (lyr.), etc.; <b class="b3">ψῆφος ὀλεθρία</b> a vote [[of death]], A.''Th.''198: in [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''799, <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.402 (lyr.):—rare in Prose, as [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 389d, Gal.16.522; νόσοι Phld.''Ir.''p.57 W. (Sup.). Adv. [[ὀλεθρίως]] Eust.132.16.<br><span class="bld">2</span> c.gen., <b class="b3">γάμοι Πάριδος ὀλέθριοι φίλων</b> [[bringing ruin]] on his friends, A.''Ag.'' 1156 (lyr.).<br><span class="bld">3</span> c. dat., as [[substantive]], <b class="b3">ψύλλοις ὀλέθριον</b>, name of a fluid, Philum.''Ven.''12.4.<br><span class="bld">II</span> of persons, [[in danger of death]], Hp.''Acut.''58; [[lost]], [[undone]], S.''Tr.''878. Adv. [[ὀλεθρίως]], ἔχειν Gal.16.522, al.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[rascally]], [[worthless]] (cf. [[ὄλεθρος]] II nisi hoc leg.), Luc.''DMort.'' 2.1 codd., ''Hist.Conscr.''38 codd. [[ὀλεθριώδης]], ες, ''Glossaria'' on [[λευγαλέη]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]