ashes
From LSJ
ῥεῖα δ' ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ' ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει → easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud (Hesiod, Works and Days 6-8)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. τέφρα, ἡ (Euripides, Cyclops 641), V. σποδός, ἡ.
ashes of the dead: V. σποδός, ἡ.
reduce to ashes, v.: Ar. and V. καταιθαλοῦν, καταίθειν, V. καταμαθύνειν, Ar. σποδίζειν; see burn.
be reduced to ashes, v.: V. καπνοῦσθαι, κατανθρακοῦσθαι, ἀνθρακοῦσθαι.
he was redneed to ashcs: V. ἐφεψαλώθη (aor. of φεψαλοῦσθαι) (Aesch., Prometheus Vinctus 362).
