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δεῖμα , ατος, τό, (δέος)
A.fear, “δεῖμα φέρων Δαναοῖσι” Il.5.682; “φρένα δείματι πάλλων” S.OT153 (lyr.); “δ. ἔλαβέ τινα” Hdt.6.74; ἐς δ. πεσεῖν, ἐν δείματι κατεστάναι, Id.8.118,36; opp. θάρσος, Aen.Tact.16.3: pl., S.El.636; “φόβοι καὶ δ.” Th.7.80, Phld.D.1.22, etc.
II. object of fear, terror, “ὦ πῦρ σὺ καὶ πᾶν δ.” S.Ph.927; “ἐκ δ. του νυκτέρου” Id.El. 410; ἀντιπάλοις δ. a terror to them, Epigr.Gr.343 (Germa): esp. in pl.,A.Pr.691 (lyr.), Ch.524, A.R.4.735; δειμάτων ἄχη fearful plagues or monsters, A.Ch.586 (lyr.); “δ. θηρῶν” E.HF700 (lyr.).
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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