φόβος, ὁ, (φέβομαι)
panic flight, the usual sense in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; φόβονδ᾽ ἔχε μώνυχας ἵππους [
Refs]; μή τι φόβονδ᾽ ἀγόρευε counsel not
to flight,[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2) Φόβος personified, as son of Ares, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; worshipped at Selinus, [
Refs]
II)
panic fear, [στρατῷ] φ. ἐμβάλλειν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; generally,
fear, terror (distinguished from δέος (which see)), τορὸς ὀρθόθριξ φ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; joined with δέος and δεῖμα, (see entry); opposed to θάρρος, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; sometimes in milder sense,
doubt, scruple, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔχει πολλὴν ὑποψίαν καὶ φ. ὡς. [
Refs]: also,
awe, reverence, for a ruler or divine being, τοῦ ἡγεμόνος [
Refs 3rd c.AD+]; θεοῦ [
LXX+4th c.AD+].—Construction, a. with
genitive object,
fear or
dread of, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. περὶ τοῦ καρποῦ
fear for or concerning, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῷ καθ᾽ ἑαντὸν φ. from personal
fear, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
infinitive, φόβῳ εἰσορᾶν
from fear to see, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.b) with Verbs, τεύχειν φόβον [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φόβους ἐμβάλλειν, φόβον ἐνθεῖναί τινι, to strike
terror into one, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the person who feels fear, φόβον λαβεῖν, ἔχειν, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν σὸν οὐ ταρβῶ φ. I fear not with thy
fear, i.e. not like thee, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ταντάλου φ. φοβεῖσθαι [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; μοι φ. τις εἰσελήλυθ᾽, μ᾽ ὑπῆλθέ τις φ,[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; διὰ φόβου ἔρχομαι, διὰ φόβων γίγνομαι, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φόβου ἀπαλλάξεσθαι to get rid of
it,[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φόβου μεθεῖσα (Valck. φόβον) [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ φ. μὴ. [
Refs]; φ. ἐστὶν ὅπως μὴ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; but φόβος εἰ πείσω I
fear I shall not persuade, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡμέας ἔχειφ. τε καὶ δέος ὅκως χρὴ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
by or
through fear, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
plural, not only in Poets, as [
Refs 5th c.BC+], but also in Prose, φόβους καὶ δείματα [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2)
object or
cause of terror, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φόβος ἀκοῦσαι
a terror to hear, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]