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νεοσφαγής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: neosphagēs

Principal Part: νεοσφαγής νεοσφαγές

Structure: νεοσφαγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: σφάζω

Sense

  1. fresh-slain

Examples

  • Αἰάς ὅδ ἡμῖν ἀρτίως νεοσφαγὴς κεῖται, κρυφαίῳ φασγάνῳ περιπτυχής. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, strophe 19)
  • τέθνηκεν ἀρτίως νεοσφαγής. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 2:15)

Synonyms

  1. fresh-slain

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

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