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ἄρδην , Adv. contr. for ἀέρδην, （ἀείρω)
A.lifted up on high, of a vase carried on the head, S.Ant.430; “φέρειν ἄ.” E.Alc.608; “πηδῶντος ἄ. Ἔκτορος τάφρων ὕπερ” S.Aj.1279.
II. utterly, wholly, “εἰς Τάρταρον ἄ. ῥίψειε δέμας” A.Pr.1051, cf. E.Hec.887; “πᾶσαν ἄ. πόλιν ἀπολλύναι” Pl.R.421a; “ἄ. διαφθείρεσθαι” Id.Lg.677c; “Φωκέων ἄ. ὄλεθρος” D.19.141; “πεπτωκὸς ἄ. πολίτευμα” Plb.1.35.5; ὄμνυμι πάντας ἄ. τοὺς θεούς all together, all at once, Ar.Th.274, cf. X.An.7.1.12; later “εἰς ἄ., πόλιν ἐξελεῖν” Hld.9.2.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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