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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

  • ἐκ δὲ πηδήσασ ἐγὼ θὴρ ὣσ διώκω τὰσ μιαιφόνουσ κύνασ, ἅπαντ’ ἐρευνῶν τοῖχον ὡσ κυνηγέτησ βάλλων ἀράσσων. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 3:13)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ λυπούμενοσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἀναξίωσ κακοπραγοῦσιν ἡσθήσεται ἢ ἄλυποσ ἔσται ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἐναντίωσ κακοπραγοῦσιν, οἱο͂ν τοὺσ πατραλοίασ καὶ μιαιφόνουσ, ὅταν τύχωσι τιμωρίασ, οὐδεὶσ ἂν λυπηθείη χρηστόσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 9 4:2)

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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