A.“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. OC394 ; 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.OT448, 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.OT179 (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. 111 : 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 τ᾽ 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 θανοῦσ᾽ 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, “ἀπ᾽ αἰῶνος νέος ὤλεο” Il.24.725 ; “ὤλεθ᾽ ὑπ᾽ Αἰγίσθοιο δόλῳ” Od.3.235 ; “δόλοις ὀλούμεθ᾽” A.Ch.888 ; “ἦέ τις ὤλετ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ” Od. 4.489 : c. acc. cogn., κακὸν οἶτον ὄληαι, ὀλέεσθε κακὸν μόρον, Il.3.417,21.133 ; “θάνατον” AP7.745 (Antip. Sid.) ; ὄλοιο, ὄλοισθε, may'st thou, may ye perish ! a form of cursing very common in Trag., S.Ph.961,1019, 1285, etc. ; so “ὀλοίμην” Id.OT645 ; 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.
