μί-ασμα [ῐ], ατος, τό,
(μιαίνω) stain, defilement, especially by murder or other crime, taint of guilt, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 169 (Lyric poetry), 281, etc.; οὐκ ἔστι γῆρας τοῦδε τοῦ μ. [prev. author] “Th.” 682; μ. φεύγων αἵματος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 35; μ. τῶν φυτευσάντων λαβεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1012; οὐ προσῆκον μίασμα εἰς οἴκους εἰσάγεσθαι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.1.3; μ. τινὸς ἐπεξέρχεσθαι [prev. author] 4.3.6; τὸ μ. εἰς αὑτὸν δέχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 871b: in _plural_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1420, “Ch.” 1017; αἱμάτων μιάσμασι χρανθεῖσα γαῖα [prev. author] “Supp.” 265, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II that which defiles, pollution, of persons, χώρας μ. καὶ θεῶν ἐγχωρίων [[ [prev. author] “Ag.” 1645 ] Refs]; πατροκτόνον μ. καὶ θεῶν στύγος, of Clytaemnestra, [[ [prev. author] “Ch.” 1028: μ. χώρας ἐλαύνειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 97; ὡς μ. τοῦδ᾽ ἡμὶν ὄντος [prev. work] 241 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in Prose more generally, πνεῦμα μεμιασμένον νοσηροῖσι μιάσμασι [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φυσῶν” 5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]