φόβος, ὁ,
(φέβομαι) panic flight, the usual sense in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, cf. Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.71 (but compare φύζα, φόβου κρυόεντος ἑταίρη 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.2); once in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”, οἱ δ᾽ ἔσχοντο φόβου 24.57; frequently in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, Δαναῶν γένετο ἰαχή τε φ. τε 15.396; πρῶτος Πηνέλεως.. ἦρχε φόβοιο 17.597; ἐς φόβον ἀνδρῶν 15.310; φόβονδε ={φύγαδε}, ἑστάμεναι κρατερῶς, μηδὲ τρωπᾶσθε φόβονδε [prev. work] 666 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φόβονδ᾽ ἔχε μώνυχας ἵππους [[ 8.139 ] Refs]; μή τι φόβονδ᾽ ἀγόρευε counsel not to flight,[[ 5.252; ἀΐξαντα φόβονδε 17.579; ὦρσαν φόβον Δαναοῖς 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 12.145. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 Φόβος personified, as son of Ares, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.299; Δεῖμός τε Φ. τε 11.37, compare 4.440, 15.119, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 934, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 45 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; worshipped at Selinus, [[ “IG” 14.268.2. ] Refs]
__II panic fear, [στρατῷ] φ. ἐμβάλλειν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.10. ; ἐν τῷ γινομένῳ φ. [prev. author] 9.69 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; generally, fear, terror (distinguished from δέος (which see)), τορὸς ὀρθόθριξ φ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 32 (Lyric poetry); διάτορος φ. [prev. author] “Pr.” 183 (Lyric poetry); ταρβόσυνος [prev. author] “Th.” 240 (Lyric poetry); νεανικός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1204 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; joined with δέος and δεῖμα, (see entry).; opposed to θάρρος, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 644c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; sometimes in milder sense, doubt, scruple, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 101b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔχει πολλὴν ὑποψίαν καὶ φ. ὡς.. [[ [prev. author] “Sph.” 268a ] Refs]: also, awe, reverence, for a ruler or divine being, τοῦ ἡγεμόνος [[ “POxy.” 1642.17 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; θεοῦ [[ LXX.Psa.35(36).1, “PLond.” 2.418.4 (4th c.AD): τοῦκυρίου NT.Act.931 ] LXX+4th c.AD+].—Construction, a. with genitive object, fear or dread of.., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 116 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.54, etc.; φ. τοῦ στρατεῦσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.18: with double _genitive_, ὀμμάτων εἰληφότας φόβον.. τῆς ἐμῆς ἐπεισόδου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 730: with Preps., φ. ἀπό τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.37 codices; ὁ ἀπὸ τῶν πολεμίων φ. [prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.3.53; οὑξ ὀνειράτων φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 929; πρός τινος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 783; πρός τινας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 16.10, 25.93 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. περὶ τοῦ καρποῦ fear for or concerning.., [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.88; φ. ἑκάστων πέρι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 20b; ὑπὲρ τοῦ μέλλοντος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.41; τὸν ἐκ τῶν Ἑλλήνων εἰς τοὺς βαρβάρους φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῷ καθ᾽ ἑαντὸν φ. from personal fear, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.2: with ] Refs 4th c.BC+]infinitive, φόβῳ εἰσορᾶν from fear to see, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1342:—for τεθνάναι τῷ φόβῳ τινά, see at {θνῄσκω} I.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]