Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λαιμοτόμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαιμοτόμος λαιμοτόμον

Structure: λαιμοτομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/mnw

Sense

  1. throat-cutting

Examples

  • εἴθ’ εὐχαῖσιν δεσποσύνοισ Λήδασ Ἑλένα φίλα παῖσ ἐλθοῦσα τύχοι τὰν Τρῳάδα λι‐ ποῦσα πόλιν, ἵν’ ἀμφὶ χαί‐ τᾳ δρόσον αἱματηρὰν ἑλιχθεῖσα λαιμοτόμῳ δεσποίνασ χειρὶ θάνοι ποινὰσ δοῦσ’ ἀντιπάλουσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, antistrophe 21)

Synonyms

  1. throat-cutting

Derived

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

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