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πόθος , ὁ,
A.longing, yearning, regret (for something absent or lost, cf. Pl.Cra.420a), mostly c. gen. obj., “ἡνιόχοιο π.” Il.17.439; “ἀλλά μ᾽ Ὀδυσσῆος πόθος αἴνυται” Od.14.144; “γλυκὺν π. Ἀργοῦς” Pi.P.4.184; “ἀνδρῶν πόθῳ” A.Pers.133(lyr.), cf. Ag.414(lyr.); “τοῦ βίου δ᾽ οὐδεὶς π.” S.El.822; “ἔλαβε [αὐτοὺς] π. . . τῆς πόλιος” Hdt.1.165; “ἀποθανόντος αὐτοῦ π. ἔχειν πάντας” Id.3.67, cf. S.Ph.646, Ar.Ra.66: with a possess. Pron., σὸς π. yearning after thee, Od.11.202, cf. Ar.Pax585; “τὠμῷ π.” S.OT969, cf. OC419: less freq. abs., “τίς ὁ π. αὐτοὺς ἵκετ᾽;” Id.Ph. 601; σὺν πόθῳ γὰρ ἡ χάρις desire to give, Id.OC1106: pl., πότερα πόθοισι; was it by reason of longing? ib.333; “τὰς ἐν τοῖς θρήνοις καὶ π. ἡδονάς” Pl.Phlb.48a.
II. love, desire, Hes.Sc.41 (who never uses ποθή), A.Pr.654, S.Tr.107(lyr.), 368, Men.Sam.279, Theoc.2.143, etc.; “πόθου κέντρα” Pl.Phdr.253e; “τὸν π. τὸν ἐξ ἐμοῦ” S.Tr.631: generally, desire, πόθῳ θανεῖν (i.e. τοῦ θανεῖν) E.Andr.824; “π. γυναικός” Ar.Ra. 55.
2. personified, A.Supp.1039(lyr.), where Π. and Πειθώ are children of “Κύπρις; Ἔρως καὶ Ἵμερος καὶ Π.” Paus.1.43.6; “Κύπρι Πόθων μῆτερ” AP10.21 (Phld.).
III. name of two plants, larkspur, Delphinium Ajacis, and asphodel, Asphodelus ramosus (used at funerals), Thphr.HP6.8.3. (ποθέω, ποθή, πόθος are cogn. with θέσσασθαι, q.v.)
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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