ὄλλυμι

G8491 G:V

to destroy

1. Act. = Lat. perdo , 2. to destroy, make an end of , (Homer) 3. to lose , θυμόν, ψυχήν, μένος, ἦτορ ὀλέσαι to lose life, (Homer); πόνον ὀλέσαντες having lost their labour, (Aeschulus Tragicus) 4. Mid., = Lat. pereo , 5. to perish, come to an end , (Homer); also with accusative cognate , κακὸν οἶτον, κακὸν μόρον ὀλέσθαι to die by an evil death, (Iliad by Homer):—; ὄλοιο, ὄλοισθε may'st thou, may ye, perish! an imprecation, [ variant dates Tragica Adespota ; so, ὀλοίμην, ὄλοιτο, ὄλοιντο, (Sophocles Tragicus) 6. to be ruined, undone , (Homer), attic 7. of things, to be lost , (Homer) 8. perfect ὄλωλα, in sense of Mid., to have perished, to be undone, ruined , (Iliad by Homer), etc.; τῶν ὀλωλότων of the dead , (Aeschulus Tragicus) (ML)