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ὤλεσεν (olesen)

ὤλεσεν is an Ancient Greek form of ὄλλυμι, meaning “destroy, kill; (mid.) perish, be lost”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 306: ἀλόχους τ’ ἀνάνδρους γραῦς τ’ ἄπαιδας ὤλεσεν

Euripides, Hecuba 232: οὐδʼ ὤλεσέν με Ζεύς, τρέφει δʼ, ὅπως ὁρῶ

All forms of ὄλλυμι (conjugation 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.