Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄσφακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσφακτος ἄσφακτη ἄσφακτον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + σφακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sfa/zw

Sense

  1. unslaughtered

Examples

  • ἐπὶ δ’ ἀσφάκτοισ μήλοισι δόμων μὴ πάριτ’ ἐσ μυχόν. (Euripides, Ion, choral, antistrophe 210)
  • Φιλύλλιὸσ τε ἢ ὁ ποιήσασ τὰσ Πόλεισ φησίν ὅ τι ἂν τύχῃ μάγειροσ ἀδικήσασ, τὸν αὐλητὴν λαβεῖν πληγάσ περὶ ἡμιόπτου καὶ ἡμιέφθου καὶ ἀσφάκτου γεμιστοῦ χοίρου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 26 3:2)
  • τισ τούτων τῶν δευτέρων ἑπτὰ σοφῶν ὀνομασθέντων τοιοῦτόν τι ἐπενόησε περὶ τοῦ χοίρου, πῶσ καὶ τὰ ἐντὸσ πεπλήρωται καὶ τὸ μὲν ὀπταλέον ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ, τὸ δὲ ἑφθόν αὐτὸσ δ’ ἐστὶν ἄσφακτοσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 251)

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

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