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μιαιφόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μιαιφόνος μιαιφόνον

Structure: μιαιφον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. blood-stained, bloody, defiled with blood, blood-guilty, stained with, blood

Examples

  • ἡμεῖσ δ’ οὕτωσ ἐν τῷ μιαιφόνῳ τρυφῶμεν, ὥστ’ ὄψον τὸ κρέασ προσαγορεύομεν, εἶτ̓ ὄψων πρὸσ αὐτὸ τὸ κρέασ δεόμεθα, ἀναμιγνύντεσ ἔλαιον οἶνον μέλι γάρον ὄντωσ ἡδύσμασι Συριακοῖσ Ἀραβικοῖσ, ὥσπερ ὄξοσ νεκρὸν ἐνταφιάζοντεσ. (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 5 9:1)
  • οὕτω δὲ πόρρω προεληλύθασι φυλακῆσ ὥστε πεποίηνται πολλοὶ νόμον τῷ μιαιφόνῳ μηδὲ τὸν συνόντα καθαρεύειν· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. blood-stained

Related

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

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