φόβος
Alt. φόβος, ὁ,
Etym. φέβομαι
I. "flight", Lat. fuga, the only sense in Hom.; φόβονδε ῀ φύγαδε, μή τι φόβονδ᾽ ἀγόρευε counsel not "to flight", Il., etc.:— Φόβος is personified as son of Ares, id=Il., Hes.
II. "panic fear", such as causes "flight", στρατῷ φ. ἐμβάλλειν Hdt.:—then generally, "fear, terror", properly of "the outward show of fear", and so distinguished from δέος "(the sensation of fear)", Aesch., etc.: the Object of fear is in gen., "fear of" another, id=Aesch., etc.; so φ. ἀπό τινος Xen.; ἔκ τινος Aesch.; πρός τινος Soph.;—but, φ. περί or ὑπέρ τινος "fear" for or concerning.., Thuc.:—with Verbs, ποιεῖν or παρέχειν τινί Xen.; φόβον ἐμβάλλειν, ἐντιθέναι τινί to strike "terror" into one, Lat. metum incutere alicui, Xen., etc.;—of the person who feels fear, φόβον λαμβάνειν Eur.; φόβος ἔχει με Aesch.; f. e)mpi/ptei moi Xen.; διὰ φόβου ἔρχομαι Eur.:—also in pl., Aesch., etc.
2. "an object of terror, a terror;" φόβος ἀκοῦσαι "a terror" to hear, Hdt.:—pl., ἢν φόβους λέγῃ Soph.