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|Definition=[θᾰ], ὁ, ([[θνῄσκω]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[death]], whether [[natural]] or [[violent]], Hom., etc.; [[τῶν ὑπαλευάμενος θάνατον]] = [[the death threatened by them]], Od.15.275; ὣς θάνον οἰκτίστῳ θανάτῳ 11.412; [[θάνατόνδε]] = [[to death]], Il.16.693, 22.297; [[θανάτου τέλος]], [[μοῖρα]], A.''Th.''906 (lyr.), ''Pers.''917 (anap.), etc.; [[θανάτου πέρι καὶ ζωᾶς]] = [[for life and death]], Pi.''N.''9.29; θ. ἢ βίον φέρει [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''802; θάνατος μὲν τάδ' ἀκούειν Id.''OC''529; θανάτῳ ἴσον πάθος Id.''Aj.'' 215; ἐν ἀγχόναις θάνατον λαβεῖν E.''Hel.''201; πόλεώς ἐστι θάνατος [[ἀνάστατος|ἀνάστατον]] [[γενέσθαι]] = for a [[city]] [[destruction]] is like [[death]], Lycurg.61; [[γῆρας]] [[ζῶν]] θάνατος Secund.''Sent.''12; [[θάνατον ἀποθνῄσκειν]], [[θάνατον τελευτᾶν]] = [[die the death]], [[die a death]] Plu.''Crass.''25, D.H.4.76.<br><span class="bld">2</span> in Law, [[death-penalty]], [[θάνατον καταγνῶναί τινος]] = to [[pass sentence of death]] on one, Th.3.81; [[θανάτου δίκῃ κρίνεσθαι]] ib.57; θανάτου κρίνειν [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''1.2.14, Plb.6.14.6; περὶ θανάτου [[διώκειν]] X.''HG''7.3.6; πρὸς τοὺς ἐχθροὺς… ἀγωνίσασθαι περὶ θανάτου D.4.47; [[θανάτου τῆς ζημίας ἐπικειμένης]] = [[the penalty is death]], Isoc.8.50; ellipt., παιδίον κεκος μημένον τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ (''[[sc.]]'' [[στολήν]]) [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.109; τὴν ἐπὶ θάνατον [[προσαγαγεῖν]] τινα Luc.''Alex.''44; but [[δῆσαί τινα τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ]] (''[[sc.]]'' [[δέσιν]]) [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.119; [[τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ ἔξοδον ποιεῖσθαι]] = to [[go to execution]], Id.7.223; ἐπὶ θάνατον [[ἄγεσθαι]] Id.3.14; τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις ἐπιτρέψαι περὶ σφῶν αὐτῶν πλὴν θανάτου = for any [[penalty]] [[short]] of [[death]], Th.4.54; εὐθύνας εἶναι πλὴν φυγῆς καὶ θανάτου καὶ ἀτιμίας ''IG''12.39.73; [[εἰργόμενον θανάτου καὶ τοῦ ἀνάπηρον ποιῆσαι]] = [[short of death or maiming]], Aeschin.1.183.<br><span class="bld">3</span> pl., [[θάνατοι]] = [[kinds of death]], Od.12.341; the deaths of several persons, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''1200, E.''Heracl.''628 (both lyr.); ''poet.'', of one person, A.''Ch.''53, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''496, ''El.''206 (all lyr.); οὐχ ἑνός, οὐδὲ δυοῖν ἄξια θανάτοιν Pl.''Lg.''908e; πολλῶν θανάτων, οὐχ ἑνὸς ἄξιος D.21.21, cf.19.16, Ar.''Pl.''483, D.H.4.24; [[δεύτερος]] θάνατος *apoc. 2.11, cf. Plu.2.942f; especially of [[violent death]], [[θάνατοι αὐθένται]] = [[murder by one of the same family]] A.''Ag.''1572 (lyr.), cf. ''Th.''879 (lyr.); εἰς θανάτους ἰέναι Pl.''R.''399b.<br><span class="bld">II</span> as pr. n., [[Θάνατος]] = [[Death]], [[Thanatos]] Ὕπνῳ… κασιγνήτῳ Θανάτοιο Il.14.231, cf. [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''854, ''Ph.''797, etc.; μόνος θεῶν γὰρ Θ. οὐ δώρων ἐρᾷ A.''Fr.''161; ὃν [ἰὸν] τέκετο Θ. S.''Tr.'' 834; character in E.''Alc.''<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[corpse]], θάνατος ἀτύμβευτος ''AP''9.439 (Crin.).