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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

  • δυοῖν δὲ θάτερον βουλήσεται, κλύειν ἄναλκισ μᾶλλον ἢ μιαιφόνοσ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric 12:10)
  • δόξαι γὰρ ἂν παντελῶσ μιαιφόνοσ τισ εἶναι, εἰ τοὺσ φίλουσ πολεμίουσ ποιοῖτο, ἵνα μάχαι καὶ φόνοι γίνοιντο· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 95:1)
  • τὸν μὲν Ἄρησ ἐνάριζε μιαιφόνοσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 87:8)
  • τῇ μιν Ἄρησ οὔτησε μιαιφόνοσ ἔγχεϊ μακρῷ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 34:2)

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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