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|Definition=ὁ, ([[πίπτω]]) ''poet.'' word,<br><span class="bld">A</span> that which [[befall]]s one, [[lot]], [[destiny]]:<br><span class="bld">1</span> in Hom. always of [[evil]] [[destiny]], especially of [[death]]; of the [[killer]], <b class="b3">πότμον ἐφῆκε, ἐφήσω</b>, Il.4.396, Od.19.550; or of the killed, πότμον ἐπισπεῖν Il.6.412, Od.2.250, al.; θάνατον καὶ πότμον 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]] = πότμον [[ἐφεῖναι]], Pi.''O.'' 9.60, cf. B.5.158, etc.; <b class="b3">πότμον ἀμπιπλάντες ὁμοῖον</b>, of the Dioscuri who lived on alternate days, Pi.''N.''10.57.<br><span class="bld">2</span> after Hom. without a [[sense]] of [[evil]], <b class="b3">πότμος συγγενής</b> one's natural [[gifts]], ib.5.40; εὐτυχεῖ π. A.''Pers.''709; καλλίπαις π. Id.''Ag.''762 (lyr.), cf. 1005 (lyr.); <b class="b3">πότμος ξυνήθης πατρός</b> my father's customary [[fortune]], S.''Tr.''88; πότμος [[ἄποτμος]] E.''Hipp.'' 1143 (lyr.); τίνα ποτ' Ἠλέκτρα πότμον εἴληχε βιότου; Id.''IT''913; θανεῖν ζηλωτὸς ἐν Ἑλλάδι π. Arist.''Fr.Lyr.''6.4.<br><span class="bld">II</span> personified, [[Destiny]], ὁ μέγας Πότμος Pi.''P.''3.86. [The first [[syllable]] long in Hom., but sometimes short in later poets, ''IG''9(1).871 (Corc., iii B.C.), Orph.''A.''1291; commonly short in Trag., but long in S.''Tr.''88, ''Fr.''871.1.]