Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

αὐτοκτόνος

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτοκτόνος

Etym.: ktei/nw

Sense

  1. self-slaying, with one's own hand, who slew her own children
  2. slaying one another, by each other's hand

Examples

  • ἀνδροῖν δ’ ὁμαίμοιν θάνατοσ ὧδ’ αὐτοκτόνοσ, οὐκ ἔστι γῆρασ τοῦδε τοῦ μιάσματοσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 1:19)

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

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