Meanings
nouncatastrophë (plural catastrophes or catastrophës)
plural catastrophes · plural catastrophës
- alternativearchaicAlternative spelling of catastrophe.
Homer adverts in two lines, strongly marked by that power, which he singularly possessed, of expressing the deepest pathetic in the simplest terms, to the catastrophë of the family of Œneus, king of the country, as to a story well known among his contemporaries.
1823, William Mitford, The History of Greece, pages 42 and 315
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