Lexicon / G8491
ὄλλυμι
ollumi
  • to destroy

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Glosses: to destroy

1. Act. = Lat. perdo,

2. to destroy, make an end of , (Homer)

3. to lose , θυμόν, ψυχήν, μένος, ἦτορ ὀλέσαι to lose life, (Homer); πόνον ὀλέσαντες having lost their labour, (Aeschulus Tragicus)

4. Mid. = Lat. pereo,

5. to perish, come to an end , (Homer); also with accusative cognate, κακὸν οἶτον, κακὸν μόρον ὀλέσθαι to die by an evil death, (Iliad by Homer):—; ὄλοιο, ὄλοισθε may'st thou, may ye, perish! an imprecation, [variant datesTragica Adespota; so, ὀλοίμην, ὄλοιτο, ὄλοιντο, (Sophocles Tragicus)

6. to be ruined, undone , (Homer), attic

7. of things, to be lost , (Homer)

8. perfect ὄλωλα, in sense of Mid. to have perished, to be undone, ruined , (Iliad by Homer), etc.; τῶν ὀλωλότων of the dead , (Aeschulus Tragicus) (ML)