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ὀλέθριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλέθριος ὀλέθριον

Structure: ὀλεθρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. destructive, deadly, of destruction, of death, fatally
  2. bringing ruin
  3. ruined, lost, undone, rascally, worthless

Examples

  • καὶ ὁ μὲν καθεύδων δῆθεν κατέκειτο ὲν τῷ μέσῳ, κατῄει δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ ὀροφῆσ ὡσ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἀντὶ τῆσ Σελήνησ Ῥουτιλία τισ ὡραιοτάτη, τῶν Καίσαροσ οἰκονόμων τινὸσ γυνή, ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἐρῶσα τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ ἀντερωμένη ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ τοῦ ὀλεθρίου ἐκείνου ἀνδρὸσ φιλήματά τε ἐγίγνετο ἐν τῷ μέσῳ καὶ περιπλοκαί. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 39:3)
  • καὶ νῦν Ὀρέστησ ‐ ἦν γὰρ εὐβούλωσ ἔχων, ἔξω κομίζων ὀλεθρίου πηλοῦ πόδα, ‐ νῦν δ’ ἥπερ ἐν δόμοισι βακχείασ καλῆσ ἰατρὸσ ἐλπὶσ ἦν, προδοῦσαν ἔγγραφε. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:3)
  • περὶ Φενεὸν δ’ ἔστι καὶ τὸ καλούμενον Στυγὸσ ὕδωρ, λιβάδιον ὀλεθρίου ὕδατοσ νομιζόμενον ἱερόν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 8 5:9)

Synonyms

  1. destructive

  2. bringing ruin

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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