Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐλαφοκτόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλαφοκτόνος ἐλαφοκτόνον

Structure: ἐλαφοκτον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ktei/nw

Sense

  1. deer-killing

Examples

  • ζαχρύσου δὲ δι’ ἐμπολᾶσ νόστον βάρβαρον ἦλθον, ἔνθα τᾶσ ἐλαφοκτόνου θεᾶσ ἀμφίπολον κόραν παῖδ’ Ἀγαμεμνονίαν λατρεύ‐ ω βωμούσ τ’ οὐ μηλοθύτασ, ζηλοῦσ’ ἄταν διὰ παν‐ τὸσ δυσδαίμον’· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, antistrophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. deer-killing

Similar forms

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

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