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ὄλλυμι from Root ΟΛ

A.Act. = Lat. perdo,
I.to destroy, make an end of, Hom., Trag.:—also of doing away with evil, ὤλεσεν νόσον Aesch.
II.to lose, θυμόν, ψυχήν, μένος, ἦτορ ὀλέσαι to lose life, Hom.; πόνον ὀλέσαντες having lost their labour, Aesch.
B.Mid., = Lat. pereo,
I.to perish, come to an end, Hom.; also c. acc. cogn., κακὸν οἶτον, κακὸν μόρον ὀλέσθαι to die by an evil death, Il.:— ὄλοιο, ὄλοισθε may'st thou, may ye, perish! an imprecation, Trag.; so, ὀλοίμην, ὄλοιτο, ὄλοιντο, Soph.
2.to be ruined, undone, Hom., attic
II.of things, to be lost, Hom.
III.perf. ὄλωλα, in sense of Mid., to have perished, to be undone, ruined, Il., Aesch., etc.; τῶν ὀλωλότων of the dead, Aesch.

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