φόβος
φόβος
φόβος, ὁ,
φέβομαι
flight, Lat. fuga, the only sense in Hom.; φόβονδε φύγαδε, μή τι φόβονδʼ ἀγόρευε counsel not to flight, Il., etc.:— Φόβος is personified as son of Ares, Il., Hes.
panic fear, such as causes flight, στρατῷ φ. ἐμβάλλειν Hdt.:—then generally, fear, terror, properly of the outward show of fear, and so distinguished from δέος (the sensation of fear), Aesch., etc.: the Object of fear is in gen., fear of another, Aesch., etc.; so φ. ἀπό τινος Xen.; ἔκ τινος Aesch.; πρός τινος Soph.;—but, φ. περί or ὑπέρ τινος fear for or concerning . . , Thuc.:—with Verbs, ποιεῖν or παρέχειν τινί Xen.; φόβον ἐμβάλλειν, ἐντιθέναι τινί to strike terror into one, Lat. metum incutere alicui, Xen., etc.;—of the person who feels fear, φόβον λαμβάνειν Eur.; φόβος ἔχει με Aesch.; φ. ἐμπίπτει μοι Xen.; διὰ φόβου ἔρχομαι Eur.:—also in pl., Aesch., etc.
an object of terror, a terror; φόβος ἀκοῦσαι a terror to hear, Hdt.:—pl., ἢν φόβους λέγῃ Soph.