[Meaning] harm.[1] Homer [writes]: "immediately he seized Destruction by her shining-tressed head."[2] "[She] who walks upon the heads of men."[3]
But a)/th [sc. can also mean] the devil, the adversary.[4]
Sophocles [writes]: "but I cry with good intentions, like a true mother, do not beget destruction upon destructions."[5] And Sophocles elsewhere [writes]: "I know no one, but I pity that wretch all the same, even though he is ill-intentioned, since he is yoked to horrible destruction."[6]