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ἀνθρωποφάγος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: anthrōpophagos

Principal Part: ἀνθρωποφάγος ἀνθρωποφάγη ἀνθρωποφάγον

Structure: ἀνθρωποφαγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: φαγεῖν

Sense

  1. man eating

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ἀλλὰ οὗτος μὲν ὁ χωλὸς ὅμως χρήσιμός γε ἐστι τεχνίτης ὢν ἄριστος καὶ κατακεκόσμηκεν ἡμῖν τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν Ἀφροδίτην ἔγημε καὶ σπουδάζεται πρὸς αὐτῆς, οἱ δὲ σοὶ παῖδες ἡ μὲν αὐτῶν ἀρρενικὴ πέρα τοῦ μετρίου καὶ ὄρειος, καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον ἐς τὴν Σκυθίαν ἀπελθοῦσα πάντες ἴσασιν οἱᾶ ἐσθίει ξενοκτονοῦσα καὶ μιμουμένη τοὺς Σκύθας αὐτοὺς ἀνθρωποφάγους ὄντας: (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 1:3)
  • τοὺς γὰρ μεγάλους τούτους ἅπαντας νενόμικα ἀνθρωποφάγους ἰχθῦς. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 57 2:15)
  • ἀνθρωποφάγους, πῶς· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 57 3:1)
  • ὁ Τίμων σου - περὶ τοῦ κυνὸς τοῦ θαλαττίου ἱστορῶν γράφει καὶ ταῦτα ἀλλ οὐ πολλοὶ ἴσασι βροτῶν τόδε θεῖον ἔδεσμα οὐδ ἔσθειν ἐθέλουσιν, ὅσοι κεπφαττελεβώδη ψυχὴν κέκτηνται θνητῶν εἰσὶν τ ἀπόπληκτοι, ὡς ἀνθρωποφάγου τοῦ θηρίου ὄντος: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 56 1:1)
  • τοὺς γὰρ ἄλλους νενόμικα ἀνθρωποφάγους ἰχθῦς. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 67 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. man eating

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

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