βῠθ-ίζω,
sink a ship, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 552; μίαν πεντήρη ἐβύθισαν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.10.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; let down, ἀγκύρας [[ 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “in Aristotelis Physica paraphrasis - pars” 133.20 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; bury, plunge, ἑρπετόν.. ἐν μυχῷ τοῦ πηλοῦ [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 13 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, of a ship, etc., sink, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 11.18, 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 117.1, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 49, 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 63.3 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of a person, to be plunged into the sea, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.831d. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II overwhelm, submerge, of a flood, οἰκίας [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.306f ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, [[ [prev. author] “Daed.” 7. ] Refs]
__III metaphorically, β. ἀνθρώπους εἰς ὄλεθρον [[ NT.1Tim.6.9 ] NT]:—passive, to be ruined, τοὺς διὰ φιλοκερδίαν βυθιζομένους [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Morte - Papiri Ercolanesi” 33; τὸ νῆφον ὑπὸ τοῦ πάθους βυθίζεται 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.13; νοῦς βυθισθεὶς θυμῷ ἢ ἐπιθυμίᾳ 6th c.AD: Simplicius Philosophus “in Aristotelis Physica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 273.11, compare 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 7.12. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]