θάνατος
θάνατος
θάνᾰτος, ὁ,
θνῄσκω
death, Hom., etc.; θ. τινος the death threatened by him, Od.; θάνατόνδε to death, Il., etc.
in Attic, θάνατον καταγιγνώσκειν τινός to pass sentence of death on one, Thuc.; θανάτου κρίνεσθαι to be tried for oneʼs life, Thuc.:—ellipt., τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ κεκοσμημένος (sc. στολήν) Hdt.; δῆσαί τινα τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτου (sc. δέσιν) Hdt.; τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις ἐπιτρέψαι περὶ σφῶν αὐτῶν πλὴν θανάτου for any penalty short of death, Thuc.
pl. θάνατοι, kinds of death, Od.; or the deaths of several persons or even of one person, Trag.
as prop. n., Θάνατος Death, twin-brother of Sleep, Il.
= νεκρός, Anth.