ἐχθρός, ά, όν,
(ἔχθος) hated, hateful, of persons and things, frequently from [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus downwards (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has it only in this _passive_ sense)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐ. γάρ μοι κεῖνος ὁμῶς Ἀΐδαο πύλῃσι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.156, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.312 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐχθρὸν δέ μοί ἐστιν c.infinitive, 'tis hateful to me to.., [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.452; θεοῖσιν ἐ. 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 766, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 601, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 34; ὁ θεοῖσιν ἐ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 74, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; compare θεοισεχθρός.
__II active, hating, hostile, first in [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus and 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus (see. below 111), τινι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 10.11, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 6.1, etc.: with _genitive_, ὕβριος ἐχθρὰν ὁδόν] Refs 8th c.BC+] averse from insolence, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.90: _absolutely_, ἐ. γλῶσσα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 309 (_anapaest meter_); ὀργαί [prev. author] “Eu.” 937 (_anapaest meter_), etc.; ἀστέρες 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 143.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III as substantive, ἐχθρός, ὁ, enemy, where the active and passive senses frequently coincide, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 342, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.84, etc.; ἀνὴρ ἐ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.92; ὁ Διὸς ἐ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 120 (_anapaest meter_); ἐχθροῖς ἐχθρὰ πορσύνων [prev. author] “Ag.” 1374; εἴ.. τινα ἴδοι ἐχθρὸν ἑαυτοῦ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.47; οἱ ἐμοὶ ἐ. [prev. author] 6.89, etc.—Acc. to 1st-2nd c.AD: Ammonius Grammaticus “περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων” p.63 V., ἐχθρός] Refs 8th c.BC+] is one who has been φίλος, but is alienated; πολέμιος one who is at war; δυσμενής one who has long been alienated and refuses to be reconciled.