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ὀλέθριος

olethrios

destructive, deadly

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Where it lives

Hecuba 4 · 5.59/10k
Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ὀλέθρ-ιος · olethr-ios — LSJ

destructive, deadly, of destruction, of death, fatally

destructive, deadly, ὀ. ἦμαρ the day of destruction, Il. 19.294, 409, cf. ἐλεύθερον ἦμαρ, etc. ; so μανίη πάγχυ ὀ. Hdt. l.c. ; ὀ. μόρος A. Th. 704 ; ἔξω κομίζων ὀλεθρίου πηλοῦ πόδα Id. Ch. 697 ; κότος ὀ. ib. 952 (lyr.) ; ὀλεθρία νύξ S. OC 1683 (lyr.), etc. ; ψῆφος ὀλεθρία a vote of death, A. Th. 198 : in S. Aj. 799, ἔξοδον . . ὀλεθρίαν ἐλπίζει φέρειν seems to be = φέρειν εἰς ὄλεθρον : acc. sg. masc. predicatively used, ἀλλά μʼ ἁ . . θεὸς ὀλέθριον αἰκίζει fatally, ib. 402 (lyr.) :—rare in Prose,

2 bringing ruin

c. gen., γάμοι Πάριδος ὀλέθριοι φίλων bringing ruin on his friends, A. Ag. 1156 (lyr.).

c. dat., as Subst., ψύλλοις ὀλέθριον, name of a fluid, Philum. Ven. 12.4.

II in danger of death, lost, undone

of persons, in danger of death, Hp. Acut. 58 ; lost, undone, S. Tr. 878. Adv. -ίως, ἔχειν Gal. 16.522, al.

2 rascally, worthless

rascally, worthless (cf. ὄλεθρος II nisi hoc leg.), Luc. DMort. 3[2].1 codd., Hist.Conscr. 38 codd. ὀλεθρ-ιώδης, ες, gloss on λευγαλέη, Hsch.

In the wild

ὀλέθριοι · olethrioi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1156
ὀλέθριον · olethrion Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 948
ὀλεθρίου · olethriou Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 696–699
ὀλεθρία · olethria Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 196–199
ὀλέθριον · olethrion Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 704
ὀλέθριον · olethrion Euripides, Hecuba 1030 (DIORISIS sentence 577)

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