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μιαιφονία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μιαιφονία

Structure: μιαιφονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. bloodguiltiness
  2. pollution from eating blood

Declension

First declension

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.

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἥ γε τούτου πικρία καὶ μιαιφονία καὶ ὠμότησ παρῆν καὶ ἐξητάζετο. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 102:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὡσ οἰκείων ἐφρόντιζον, οὐδὲ ηὖξον εἰσ κάλλοσ καὶ μέγεθοσ οὔτε τὰσ πόλεισ οὔτε τὰσ χώρασ, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ οἱ εἰσ μὴ προσήκοντα ἐμπεσόντεσ αἰσχρῶσ καὶ κακῶσ ἀνήλισκον, τοῦτο ζητοῦντεσ, ὅπωσ ἀσθενεστάτων ἄρξουσι, καὶ ὥσπερ ὑπὲρ μιαιφονιῶν ἁμιλλώμενοι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ὁ δεύτεροσ ἀεὶ τὸν πρότερον κατὰ τοὺσ πεντάθλουσ ὑπερβαλεῖν ἐπειρᾶτο. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 7:4)
  • προσπεσόντοσ δὲ αὐτῷ τοῦ περὶ τὸν Ἀρσάμην πάθουσ οὐδὲ ὀλίγον ἀντέσχεν, ἀλλ’ εὐθὺσ ὑπὸ λύπησ καὶ δυσθυμίασ ἀπεσβέσθη, βιώσασ μὲν ἐνενήκοντα καὶ τέσσαρα ἔτη, βασιλεύσασ δὲ δύο καὶ ἑξήκοντα, δόξασ δὲ πρᾶοσ εἶναι καὶ φιλυπήκοοσ οὐχ ἥκιστα διὰ τὸν υἱὸν Ὦχον ὠμότητι καὶ μιαιφονίᾳ πάντασ ὑπερβαλόμενον. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 30 5:2)
  • χρώμενοσ γὰρ τῇ συνήθει μιαιφονίᾳ τὸν Δαρεῖον ἐπεβάλετο διὰ φαρμακείασ ἀνελεῖν· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 3 24:2)

Synonyms

  1. pollution from eating blood

Related

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

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