ὀλοφώϊος,ον, Ep.
Adj.
A. destructive, deadly,
Hom. only in Od. and in neut. pl.,ὀ. δήνεα perniciousarts or plots, 10.289 ;ὀλοφώϊα εἰδώςversed inpernicious arts,
4.460 , 17.248 ;πάντα δέ τοι ἐρέω ὀλοφώϊα τοῖο γέροντοςib. 410 ; in later Ep. , λύκων ὀ. ἔρνος
Theoc. 25.185
; ὀ. ἰός
Nic. Th. 327
. (The notion ofdestruction,necessary in Theoc. and Nic. ll. cc., and assumed by Hsch. , is perh. not certain in Hom. , whereὀ.may mean simplydeceptive, tricky: perh. akin toἐλεφαίρομαι.)