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ὄλλυμι

ollymi

destroy, make an end of

Appears 166 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ὄλλυμι, S. Ant. 673, E. Or. 1303 ; part. ὀλλύς Il. 8.472, fem. pl. ὀλλῦσαι ib.449 :—also ὀλλύω, Archil. 27, Com.Adesp. 608, (προσαπ-) Hdt. 1.207 : poet. ὀλέκω (q. v.): impf. 3pl. ὤλλυσαν A. Pers. 461, S. OC 394 ; Ep. ὀλέεσκον Q.S. 2.414 (cf. ὀλέκω) : fut. ὀλέσω Od. 13.399, Hes. Op. 180 ; Ep. also ὀλέσσω Il. 12.250, Od. 2.49 ; Ion. ὀλέω (ἀπ-) Hdt. 1.34, etc. ; Att. ὀλῶ, εῖς, εῖ, S. OT 448, E. Andr. 856 (lyr.) : aor. ὤλεσα Il. 22.107, A. Ag. 1017 (lyr.), etc. ; Ep. ὄλεσα, ὄλεσσα, Od. 23.319, 21.284, etc. :—Med. ὄλλυμαι, Il. 20.21, S. OT 179 (lyr.) : impf. ὠλλύμην Id. El. 927, E. Alc. 633 : fut. ὀλέομαι, -οῦμαι, 2pl. ὀλέεσθε Il. 21.133 ; but 3sg. ὀλεῖται 2.325 : aor. 2 ὠλόμην, 3sg. ὤλετο 13.772, A. Eu. 565 (lyr.), etc. ; Ion. ὀλέσκετο (ἀπ- Od. 11.586) ; part. ὀλόμενος as Adj., v. οὐλόμενος: pf. ὄλωλα, v. B. III : plpf. ὀλώλειν Il. 10.187 :— Pass., aor. ὀλεσθῆναι, fut. ὀλεσθήσομαι (ἀπ-), LXXPs. 82(83).17, Gal. 9.728.—The simple Verb only Poet. and later Prose, as LXX, ἀπόλλυμι being used in Com. and Classical Prose. A. Act.: I. destroy, make an end of, and of living beings, kill, νῆάς τʼ ὀλέσας καὶ πάντας Ἀχαιούς Il. 8.498, cf. Od. 23.319 ; γένος ὀλέσσαι . . θανάτῳ Pi. P. 3.41 ; ρένος ὠλέσατε πρυμνόθεν A. Th. 1061 (anap.) ; θανεῖται καὶ θανοῦσʼ ὀλεῖ τινα S. Ant. 751 ; ὀλεῖ ὀλεῖ με E. Andr. 856 (lyr.) ; ἁ φιλοχρηματία Σπάρταν ὀλεῖ, ἄλλο γὰρ οὐδέν Orac. ap.Arist. Fr. 544 ; also, of doing away with evil, νῆστιν ὤλεσεν νόσον A. Ag. 1017 (lyr.). II. lose, μένος, θυμόν, ψυχήν, ἦτορ ὀλέσαι, lose life, die, Il. 8.358, 13.763,5.250 ; πόνον ὀρταλίχων ὀλέσαντες A. Ag. 54 (anap.) ; ἄγραν ὤλεσα Id. Eu. 148(lyr.) ; τᾶς ἀνάνδρου κοίτας ὀλέσασα λέκτρον E. Med. 436(lyr.). B. Med., I. perish, come to an end, and of living beings, die, esp. a violent death, ἀπʼ αἰῶνος νέος ὤλεο Il. 24.725 ; ὤλεθʼ ὑπʼ Αἰγίσθοιο δόλῳ Od. 3.235 ; δόλοις ὀλούμεθʼ A. Ch. 888 ; ἦέ τις ὤλετʼ ὀλέθρῳ Od. 4.489 : c. acc. cogn., κακὸν οἶτον ὄληαι, ὀλέεσθε κακὸν μόρον, Il. 3.417,21.133 ; θάνατον AP 7.745 (Antip. Sid.) ; ὄλοιο, ὄλοισθε, mayʼst thou, may ye perish ! a form of cursing very common in Trag., S. Ph. 961,1019, 1285, etc. ; so ὀλοίμην Id. OT 645 ; ὄλοιτο ib.1349 (lyr.), etc. ; ὄλοιντο Id. Tr. 383 :—Hom. has Act. and Med. in emphatic contrast, ὀλλύντων τε καὶ ὀλλυμένων Il. 4.451,8.65, cf. 11.83. II. of things, to be lost, μή τί μοι ἐκ μεγάρων κειμήλιον . . ὄληται Od. 15.91 ; ὤλετό μοι νόστος Il. 9.413, cf. Od. 1.168 ; κλέος Il. 9.415, cf. A. Supp. 918. III. pf. ὄλωλα (Syrac. ὀλώλω, Hilgard Exc.ex Hdn.p.30), to have perished, to be dead, undone, ruined, ὄλωλε μάχῃ ἔνι Il. 15.111, al., cf. A. Pers. 255, 1016(lyr.), etc. ; τῶν ὀλωλότων of the dead, Id. Ag. 346, cf. 672, 1367, S. Ant. 174 : also of things, to be in a state of ruin, ἐσθίεταί μοι οἶκος, ὄλωλε δὲ πίονα ἔργα Od. 4.318.
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