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πτῶμα , ατος, τό, (πίπτω)
A.fall, “πεσεῖν . . πτώματ᾽ οὐκ ἀνασχετά” A.Pr. 919; “πίπτουσι . . πτώματ᾽ αἰσχρά” S.Ant.1046; “π. θανάσιμον πεσῇ” E.El. 686; ἡ πόλις οὐκ ἂν ἔπεσε τοιοῦτον π. Pl.La.181b.
b. fall in wrestling, Call.Iamb.1.274, AP9.391 (Diotim.): metaph., booby-trap, “π. φιλοσόφων ἀπαλαιστρότατον” Phld.Rh.1.8S.; lapse, blunder, Gal. 10.124.
2. metaph., misfortune, calamity, τά γ᾽ ἐκ θεῶν πτώματα calamities sent by the gods, E.HF1228.
3. pl., injuries due to falls, bruises, Dsc.1.128,3.1,5.117.
II. fallen body, corpse, carcase, freq. with gen., πτῶμα Ἑλένης, Ἐτεοκλέους, E.Or.1196, Ph.1697, cf. LXX Jd.14.8, D.H.4.70, etc.; “πτώματα νεκρῶν” E.Ph.1482 (anap.): without a gen., A.Supp.662 (s. v.l., lyr.), Plb.15.14.2, Sardis 7 No. 165, Plu.Alex.33, etc.: collective in sg., SIG700.17 (Maced., ii B.C.), Apoc.11.8, Polyaen.6.18.1.
2. of buildings, ruin, οἰκίας, κρηνῖδος, IG11(2).161 A120, 163 Ba 21 (Delos, iii B.C.); ἐπὶ τοῦ π. on the ruins (of the wall), Plb.16.31.8, cf. 5.4.9,5.100.6, Aristid.Or.25(43).27; breach in a city-wall, D.S.16.8, al.: pl., ruins, IG11(2).199A 103 (Delos, iii B.C.), Ph.Bel.100.45, Plb.21.28.2; “π. οἴκων” Phryn.351; π. ἐλαιῶν fallen olive-trees or fruit, Lys.Fr.203 S.; windfall fruit, of the φοῖνιξ, Dsc.1.109.
III. payment which falls due, PEleph.11.4 (iii B.C., pl.), PLond.1.3.37 (ii B.C.).
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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