LOGOI

The corpus record

λοιγός

loigos1 · ὁ

ruin, havoc

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What it meant

λοιγός · loigos — LSJ

ruin, havoc, destruction

ruin, havoc, of death by plague, ἡμῖν ἀπὸ λ. ἀμῦναι Il. 1.67; by war, 5.603, etc.; of destruction of ships, νεῶν ἀπὸ λ. ἀμύνων 16.80; λ. Ἐνυαλίου Pi. N. 9.37; βοᾷ λοιγὸν Ἐρινύς (Schütz λοιγὸς Ἐρινύν) A. Ch. 402 (lyr.); ἀνδροκμὴς λ. Id. Supp. 679 (lyr.).—Poet. (not in Od.); mock-heroic in Cratin. 171. (Cf. Lith. pa-liegti ‘become feeble, sickly’.)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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