λοιμός, ὁ,
plague, once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.61), compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 243, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.171; λοιμοῦ σκηπτός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 715 (troch.) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the plague at Athens, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.47, 54, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 201d: _plural_, [prev. work] 188b, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; coupled with λιμός, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus and Hdt.[same places], 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.54, Oracle texts cited in 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.135. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 of persons, plague, pest, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.80. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II as adjective, pestilent, [[ LXX.1Ki.1.16 ] LXX]; ἀνὴρ λ. καὶ πονηρός[[ [prev. work] 30.22, cf. NT.Act.24.5; λ. οἶνος 2nd-3rd c.AD: Symmachus LXX.Pro.20.1. ] NT+2nd c.AD+]