λοιγός
loigos
ruin, havoc
Appears 22 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
λοιγός (A), ὁ, A. 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 N. 9.37; βοᾷ λοιγὸν Ἐρινύς (Schütz λοιγὸς Ἐρινύν) Ch. 402 (lyr.); ἀνδροκμὴς λ. Supp. 679 (lyr.).—Poet. (not in Od.); mock-heroic in 171. (Cf. Lith. pa-liegti ‘become feeble, sickly’.)
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