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πα^ν-ώλεθρος , ον, (ὄλεθρος)
A.utterly destroyed, “π. ἐξαπόλλυται” Hdt.6.37 (v.l. -θρως, found also Apollod.3.16.2); “πανωλέθρους τὸ πᾶν . . ὀλέσθαι” S.El.1009; π. πεσεῖν, γενέσθαι, A.Ch.934, Eu. 552 (lyr.); “πόλιν πανώλεθρον ἐκθαμνίσαι” Id.Th.71; “γένος π. ἀναστρέψαι” Ar.Av.1239; “π. ξυναρπάσαι τινά” S.Aj.839, etc.
2. in moral sense, utterly abandoned, “τοῖς π. Ἀτρείδαις” Id.Ph.322; “ἡ π. μήτηρ” E.El.86; “οὔτε σὺν πανωλέθροισιν οὔτ᾽ ἄνευ πανωλέθρων” Ar.Lys. 1039.
II. Act., all-destructive, ruinous, “π. κακόν” Hdt.6.85; “ἐμβολαί” A.Pers.562 (lyr.); “θεός” Id.Supp.414.
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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