Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πανώλης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πανώλης πανώλες

Structure: πανωλη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: o)/llumi

Sense

  1. all-destructive

Examples

  • ἡμεῖσ δ’ ἀναλώσαντεσ αἰσχύναισ δόμον, Θησεῖ πανώλεισ ἑψόμεσθ’ ἐφολκίδεσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 5:50)
  • ἦ τἂν πανώλεισ παγκάκωσ τ’ ὀλοίατο. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 2 1:12)
  • ἰάπτει δ’ ἐλπίδων ἀφ’ ὑψιπύργων πανώλεισ βροτούσ, βίαν δ’ οὔτιν’ ἐξοπλίζει· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 51)
  • αἱ δὲ συμφοραὶ αὐτοῦ πανώλεισ, ἄξιαι δ’ ἀμυναθεῖν. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 7:2)
  • καὶ πανώλεισ, μισηθέντεσ θεοῖσ τε καὶ ἀνθρώποισ, διαφθαρησόμεθα; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 53 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. all-destructive

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

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