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καταστροφ-ή , ἡ,
A.overturning, “θεσμίων” A.Eu.490 (lyr., pl.).
2. subjugation, reduction, Hdt.1.6, 92, etc.; “καταστροφὴν ποιήσασθαί τινος” Id.6.27; “ἐπὶ Λιβύων καταστροφῇ πέμπεσθαι” Id.4.167; “ἐπ᾽ ἄλλων καταστροφῇ ἐξιέναι” Th.1.15: pl., “καταστροφαὶ ἐθνῶν” Phld.Rh.1.255 S.
3. return of vibrating string to axial position, Arist.Pr.921a17 (pl.).
II. end, close, conclusion, “ἄνευ δὲ λύπης οὐδαμοῦ καταστροφή” A.Supp.442; κ. βίου, i.e. death, S. OC103, cf. Plb.5.54.4, etc.; “κ. τοῦ ζῆν” Men.Pk.12: without βίου, Th.2.42, Epicur.Sent. 35; ποία κ. εὐδαιμονεστέρα; Arr.Epict.4.10.17; τὸ τέλος αὐτῶν τῆς κ. the event of their life's end, Plb.6.8.6; “κ. καὶ συντέλεια τῶν γεγονότων” Id.3.1.9; “κ. λαμβάνειν” Id.3.47.8; τὴν κ. τῆς βίβλου ποιεῖσθαι εἰς . . Id.1.13.5; in the drama, dénouement, ending, Antiph.191.19, Hero Aut.22.6, Luc.Alex.60, al., Euanth. et Donat. in CGFpp.67,69 K.: pl., “αἱ κ. τῶν δραμάτων” Plb.3.48.8.
III. ruin, undoing, κ. γῆς (of a person) Men.548.8.
IV. crane, Stud.Pal.10.259.13 (pl., vi A.D.).
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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