A.ruin, destruction, death, “αἰπὺς ὄ.” Il.11.174, al. ; “λυγρὸς ὄ.” 10.174, al. ; “ὄ. ἀδευκής” Od.4.489 ; “οἴκτιστος ὄ.” 23.79 ; “ἵνα ψυχῆς ὤκιστος ὄ.” Il.22.325 ; ὀλέθρου πείρατα, like τέλος θανάτοιο, the consummation of death, 6.143 ; ὄ., opp. γένεσις, Parm.8.21, 27 ; οὐκ εἰς ὄλεθρον ; as an imprecation, plague take thee! S.OT430 ; χρημάτων ὀλέθρῳ by destruction of property. Th.7.27 ; “εἶναι ἐν ὀλέθρῳ” Antipho 1.29 ; “ἐπ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ τῶν χρωμένων” E.Ph.534 ; “ἐκκλησιάζειν ἐπ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ” Ar.Th.84 ; “οὐκ ἐπὶ δουλείᾳ κολάζοντες οὐδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ” Pl.R. 471a : pl., Phld.Rh.2.140S.
II. that which causes destruction, pest, plague, Hes.Th.326 ; contemptuously of persons, “γεγονὼς κακῶς καὶ ἐὼν ὄ.” Hdt.3.142 ; “ὑπὸ γερόντων ὀ.” Ar.Lys.325 ; “ὄ. ἄνθρωπος” Eup. 376, cf. Men.533.13 ; ὄ. Μακεδών, of Philip, D.9.31 ; ὄ. γραμματεύς a pestilent scribe, of Aeschines, Id.18.127 ; τὸν βάσκανον, τὸν δ᾽ ὄ. the cheat, the pest! Id.21.209 ; “ἀνθρώπους οὐδ᾽ ἐλευθέρους ἀλλ᾽ ὀ.” Id.23.202 ; “πολλοὶ ὄ. καὶ μεγάλοι” Pl.R.491b.
