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πατροφόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πατροφόνος πατροφόνον

Structure: πατροφον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Fe/nw

Sense

  1. parricidal, a parricide

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ αἰκίασ δίκαισ ταῖσ ἐσχάταισ ἔνοχοσ ἂν γίγνοιτο καὶ ἀσεβείασ ὡσαύτωσ καὶ ἱεροσυλίασ, τὴν τοῦ γεννητοῦ ψυχὴν συλήσασ, ὥστ’ εἴπερ οἱο͂́ν τ’ ἦν τὸ πολλάκισ ἀποθνῄσκειν τὸν αὐτόν, καὶ τὸν πατροφόνον ἢ μητροκτόνον, ἐξεργασάμενον θυμῷ τοῦτο, δικαιότατον θανάτων πολλῶν ἦν τυγχάνειν. (Plato, Laws, book 9 101:1)

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

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