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ψυ_χή (ψυ?χω): properly, breath of life, life, soul,
spirit;
τὸν ἔλιπε ψυ_χή, of one falling in a
faint, Il. 5.696; of life itself,
ψυ_χῆς ὄλεθρος,
Il. 22.325;
περὶ ψυ_χῆς μάχεσθαι, Od.
22.245; of animals, Od.
14.426
; ψυ_χα?ς ὀλέσαντες, Il. 13.763. Also of the disembodied
spirits, souls of the departed in the nether world, ψυ_χὴ καὶ εἴδωλον, Il. 23.104, cf. Od. 24.14; opp. to the body or the man himself, Il. 1.3. For the supposed
condition of the souls in Hades, see Od.
11.153, 232 ff., 476.