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πότμος , ὁ, (πίπτω) poet. word,
A.that which befalls one, lot, destiny:
1. in Hom. always of evil destiny, esp. of death; of the killer, πότμον ἐφῆκε, ἐφήσω, Il.4.396, Od.19.550; or of the killed, “πότμον ἐπισπεῖν” Il.6.412, Od.2.250, al.; “θάνατον καὶ π. ἐπισπεῖν” Il.2.359, 20.337, al.; also “θανέειν καὶ πότμον ἐπισπεῖν” 7.52, Od.4.562, al.; “ὀλόμην καὶ πότμον ἐπέσπον” 11.197; “αἴ κε θάνῃς καὶ πότμον ἀναπλήσῃς βιότοιο” Il.4.170, cf. 11.263; also πότμον ἐφάψαι, = π. ἐφεῖναι, Pi.O. 9.60, cf. B.5.158, etc.; πότμον ἀμπιπλάντες ὁμοῖον, of the Dioscuri who lived on alternate days, Pi.N.10.57.
2. after Hom. without a sense of evil, π. συγγενής one's natural gifts, ib.5.40; “εὐτυχεῖ π.” A.Pers.709; “καλλίπαις π.” Id.Ag.762 (lyr.), cf. 1005 (lyr.); π. ξυνήθης πατρός my father's customary fortune, S.Tr.88; “π. ἄποτμος” E.Hipp. 1143 (lyr.); “τίνα ποτ᾽ Ἠλέκτρα πότμον εἴληχε βιότου;” Id.IT913; “θανεῖν ζηλωτὸς ἐν Ἑλλάδι π.” Arist.Fr.Lyr.6.4.
II. personified, Destiny, “ὁ μέγας Π.” Pi.P.3.86. [The first syll. long in Hom., but sts. short in later poets, IG9(1).871 (Corc., iii B.C.), Orph.A.1291; commonly short in Trag., but long in S.Tr.88, Fr.871.1.]
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (20):
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1005
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 762
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 709
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 5.158
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1143
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 913
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    • Homer, Iliad, 7.52
    • Homer, Iliad, 20.337
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.359
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.197
    • Homer, Odyssey, 19.550
    • Homer, Odyssey, 2.250
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.562
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 1 to Dionysus, 5.40
    • Homer, Iliad, 6.412
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 871.1
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 88
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