A.“ἀπώλλυν” A.Pers.652(lyr.), S.El.1360, “ἀπώλλυον” And.1.58: fut. ἀπολέσω, Ep. ἀπολέσσω, Att. ἀπολῶ, Ion. “ἀπολέω” Hdt.1.34, al.: aor. ἀπώλεσα, Ep. ἀπόλεσσα: pf. ἀπολώλεκα:—freq. in tmesi in Ep.; Prep. postponed in Od.9.534:—stronger form of ὄλλυμι, destroy utterly, kill, in Hom. mostly of death in battle, “ἀπώλεσε λαὸν Ἀχαιῶν” Il. 5.758, al.; ἐκπάγλως ἀπόλεσσαν ib.1.268; also of things, demolish, lay waste, ἀπώλεσεν Ἴλιον ἱρήν ib.5.648, etc.; generally, βίοτον δ᾽ ἀπὸ πάμπαν ὀλέσσει will waste my substance, Od.2.49; οἵ μ᾽ ἀπωλλύτην sought to destroy me (impf. sense), S.OT1454; in pregnant sense, ἐπεί με γᾶς ἐκ πατρίας ἀπώλεσε drove me ruined from . ., E.Hec.946; τῆς παρ᾽ ἡμέραν χάριτος τὰ μέγιστα τῆς πόλεως ἀ. for the sake of . ., D. 8.70.
2. λόγοις or λέγων ἀ. τινά talk or bore one to death, S.El.1360, Ar.Nu.892 (lyr.): hence, alone, in fut. “ἀπολεῖς με” Id.Ach.470; “οἴμ᾽ ὡς ἀπολεῖς με” Pherecr.108.20; ἀπολεῖ μ᾽ οὑτοσί by his questions, Antiph.222.8, etc.
3. ruin a woman, Lys.1.8.
II. lose, “πατέρ᾽ ἐσθλὸν ἀπώλεσα” Od.2.46, cf. Il.18.82, Democr.272; “ἀπώλεσε νόστιμον ἦμαρ” Od.1.354; ἀπὸ θυμὸν ὀλέσσαι lose one's life, 11.16.861, Od.12.350; θυμὸν οὐκ ἀπώλεσεν loses not his spirit, S.El.26; “ἔλεον ἀπώλεσεν” 11.24.44; freq. of things, “ἡ τοῦ πλέονος ἐπιθυμίη τὸ παρεὸν ἀπόλλυσι” Democr.224; “ἵππους ἑβδομήκοντα ἀπολλύασι” Th.7.51; “ἀπώλεσαν τὴν ἀρχὴν ὑπὸ Περσῶν” X.An.3.4.11, cf. 7.2.22; “μηδὲν ἀπολλὺς τοῦ ὄγκου” Pl.Tht.155c; ἀ. οὐσίαν, = ἀπόλλυσθαι, Id.Prm.163d.
B. Med., ἀπόλλυ^μαι: fut. -ολοῦμαι, Ion. “-ολέομαι” Hdt.7.218: aor. 2 -ωλόμην: pf. -όλωλα, whence the barbarous impf. “ἀπόλωλο” Ar.Th.1212: plpf. in Att. Prose sts. written ἀπωλώλειν in codd., as Th.4.133, 7.27:—perish, die, 11.1.117, etc.; cease to exist, opp. γίγνεσθαι, Meliss.8, Pl.Prm.156b, etc.: sts. c. acc. cogn., “ἀπόλωλε κακὸν μόρον” Od.1.166; ἀπωλόμεθ᾽ αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον ib.9.303: c. dat. modi, ἀπώλετο λυγρῷ ὀλέθρῳ (v.l. λυγρὸν ὄλεθρον) ib.3.87; “ἀ. ὑπό τινος” Hdt. 5.126; simply, to be undone, “αὐτῶν . . ἀπωλόμεθ᾽ ἀφραδίῃσιν” Od.10.27; “ἀπωλώλει τῷ φόβῳ μή . .” X.Cyr.6.1.2: freq. in Att., esp. in pf., ἀπόλωλας you are lost, Ar.Nu.1077; “ἀπωλόμεθ᾽ ἂν εἰ μὴ ἀπολώλειμεν” Plu. 2.185f; “ἱκανὸν χρόνον ἀπολλύμεθα καὶ κατατετρίμμεθα” Ar.Pax355; “βλέπειν ἀπολωλός” Philostr.Jun.Im.2:—as an imprecation, “κάκιστ᾽ ἀπολοίμην εἰ. .” Ar.Ach.151, al.; “κακὸς κακῶς ἀπόλοιθ᾽ ὅστις. .” Eub. 116; “ἐξώλης ἀπόλοιθ᾽ ὅστις. .” Men.154; ἀπολλύμενος, opp. σῳζόμενος, Isoc.6.36, cf. Plu.2.469d: freq. in part. fut., ὦ κάκιστ᾽ ἀπολούμενε o destined to a miserable end! i.e. o thou villain, scoundrel, knave! Ar.Pl.713, cf. 456, Ach.865, Pax2; “ὁ κάκιστ᾽ ἀνέμων ἀ.” Luc.DDeor. 14.2.
2. in NT, perish, in theol. sense, Ev.Jo.3.16, al.; οἱ ἀπολλύμενοι, opp. οἱ σῳζόμενοι, 1 Ep.Cor.1.18.
