Lexicon / G6653
βάραθρον
barathron
  • a pit

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Glosses: a pit

1. a gulf, pit :—; at Athens a cleft behind the Acropolis, into which criminals were thrown, (Herdotus Historicus)

2. metaphorically ruin, perdition , (Demosthenes Orator) (ML)