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ὄλεθρον (olethron)

ὄλεθρον is an Ancient Greek form of ὄλεθρος, meaning “ruin, destruction, death”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 224 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.488: εἰ καὶ ἐμοὶ τοιόνδε θεοὶ τελέουσιν ὄλεθρον,

Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 429: ὄλεθρόν τινʼ ἡμᾶς κυρκανᾶν ἁμωσγέπως,

All forms of ὄλεθρος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.