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αἱματοσταγής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἱματοσταγής αἱματοσταγές

Structure: αἱματοσταγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: sta/zw

Sense

  1. blood-dripping

Examples

  • προσάγετε <τῶν> δυσπότμων σώμαθ’ αἱματοσταγῆ, σφαγέντασ οὐκ ἄξι’ οὐδ’ ὑπ’ ἀξίων, ἐν οἷσ ἀγὼν ἐκράνθη. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • φόνον δόμοι πνέουσιν αἱματοσταγῆ, καί πῶσ; (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 3:15)

Synonyms

  1. blood-dripping

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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