- πόθος
- πόθος, ὁ,A longing, yearning, regret (for something absent or lost, cf. Pl.Cra.420a), mostly c. gen. obj.,
ἡνιόχοιο π. Il.17.439
;ἀλλά μ' Ὀδυσσῆος πόθος αἴνυται Od.14.144
;γλυκὺν π. Ἀργοῦς Pi.P.4.184
;ἀνδρῶν πόθῳ A.Pers.133
(lyr.), cf. Ag.414(lyr.);τοῦ βίου δ' οὐδεὶς π. S.El.822
;ἔλαβε [αὐτοὺς] π. . . τῆς πόλιος Hdt.1.165
;ἀποθανόντος αὐτοῦ π. ἔχειν πάντας Id.3.67
, cf. S.Ph.646, Ar.Ra.66: with a possess. Pron., σὸς π. yearning after thee, Od.11.202, cf. Ar.Pax585;τὠμῷ π. S.OT969
, cf. OC419: less freq. abs.,τίς ὁ π. αὐτοὺς ἵκετ'; Id.Ph. 601
; σὺν πόθῳ γὰρ ἡ χάρις desire to give, Id.OC1106: pl., πότερα πόθοισι; was it by reason of longing? ib.333;τὰς ἐν τοῖς θρήνοις καὶ π. ἡδονάς Pl.Phlb.48a
.II love, desire, Hes.Sc.41 (who never uses ποθή), A.Pr.654, S.Tr.107(lyr.), 368, Men.Sam.279, Theoc.2.143, etc.;πόθου κέντρα Pl.Phdr.253e
;τὸν π. τὸν ἐξ ἐμοῦ S.Tr.631
: generally, desire, πόθῳ θανεῖν (i.e. τοῦ θανεῖν) E.Andr.824;π. γυναικός Ar.Ra. 55
.2 personified, A.Supp.1039(lyr.), where Π. and Πειθώ are children ofΚύπρις; Ἔρως καὶ Ἵμερος καὶ Π. Paus.1.43.6
;Κύπρι Πόθων μῆτερ AP10.21
(Phld.).III name of two plants, larkspur, Delphinium Ajacis, and asphodel, Asphodelus ramosus (used at funerals), Thphr.HP6.8.3. (ποθέω, ποθή, πόθος are cogn. with θέσσασθαι, q.v.)
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