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πανώλης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πανώλης πανώλες

Structure: πανωλη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: o)/llumi

Sense

  1. all-destructive

Examples

  • ἡ γὰρ πανώλησ Τυνδαρίσ, μήτηρ ἐμή, ἐξέβαλέ μ’ οἴκων, χάριτα τιθεμένη πόσει· (Euripides, episode 4:3)
  • ἡμεῖσ δ’ ἀναλώσαντεσ αἰσχύναισ δόμον, Θησεῖ πανώλεισ ἑψόμεσθ’ ἐφολκίδεσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 5:50)
  • Βακτρίων δ’ ἔρρει πανώλησ δῆμοσ, οὐδέ τισ γέρων. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees 1:23)
  • 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)
  • ἁγὼ πανώλησ ὄψ’ ἄγαν ἐκμανθάνω· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode8)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁ πανώλησ τύμβοσ ἔτι ζώντων αἰσθάνεται πολέμων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3962)

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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