μιαιφονέω
ε-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
μιαιφονέω
Structure:
μιαιφονέ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to be or become blood-stained
- to murder
Conjugation
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.
- προσπόλοισ λέγω ὠθεῖν πύλασ τάσδ’, ὡσ ἂν ἀλλὰ παῖδ’ ἐμὴν ῥυσώμεθ’ ἀνδρῶν ἐκ χερῶν μιαιφόνων, καὶ τὴν τάλαιναν ἀθλίαν δάμαρτ’ ἐμὴν λάβωμεν, ᾗ δεῖ ξυνθανεῖν ἐμῇ χερὶ τοὺσ διολέσαντασ τὴν ἐμὴν ξυνάορον. (Euripides, episode, iambic6)
- ἄλεκτρ’ ἄνυμφα γὰρ ἐπέβα μιαιφόνων γάμων ἁμιλλήμαθ’ οἷσιν οὐ θέμισ. (Sophocles, choral, antistrophe 12)
- τοὺσ μὲν γὰρ ἰδιώτασ ἐκόλαζε πᾶσαν τὴν συγγένειαν ἀποσφάττων, παρὰ δὲ τῶν πόλεων τὰσ εὐθύνασ ἐλάμβανεν ἡβηδὸν μιαιφονῶν καὶ δι’ ὀλίγουσ τῶν ἐγκαλουμένων τοὺσ πολλοὺσ καὶ μηδ’ ὁτιοῦν ἀδικήσαντασ ἀναγκάζων τὴν αὐτὴν ἀναδέχεσθαι συμφορὰν πανδημεὶ τῶν πόλεων θάνατον κατεγίνωσκεν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 1 8:2)
- πειρωμένουσ δὲ τὴν πατρίδα, ὥσπερ ἦν καὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ, Κόρινθον ποιῆσαι καὶ ἐλευθέραν ἀποδεῖξαι καὶ τῶν μὲν μιαιφόνων καθαράν, εὐνομίᾳ δὲ χρωμένην, ἄξιον εἶναι, εἰ μὲν δύναιντο καταπρᾶξαι ταῦτα, σωτῆρασ γενέσθαι τῆσ πατρίδοσ, εἰ δὲ μὴ δύναιντο, τῶν γε καλλίστων καὶ μεγίστων ἀγαθῶν ὀρεγομένουσ ἀξιεπαινοτάτησ τελευτῆσ τυχεῖν. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 7:2)
- εἶπεν, ἦν ἐμοὶ τεθνάναι πρὶν ἐπιδεῖν τὸν οἶκον τοῦ θεοῦ τοσούτοισ ἄγεσι καταγέμοντα καὶ τὰσ ἀβάτουσ καὶ ἁγίασ χώρασ ποσὶ μιαιφόνων στενοχωρουμένασ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 191:1)
Synonyms
-
to be or become blood-stained
- αἱματόω (to make bloody, stain with blood)
- ἐρεύθω (to make red, stain red, to be or become red)
-
to murder