cleansing

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

purification: P. and V. καθαρμός, ὁ, λύσις, ἡ, P. κάθαρσις, ἡ; see purification.

a recompense for his cleansing of land and sea: V. ποντίων καθαρμάτων χέρσου τ' ἀμοιβαί (Euripides, Hercules Furens 225).

adjective

V. καθάρσιος, P. καθαρτικός.