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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

  • χαλκῷ ἀλλά τισ ἀθανάτων παῦσεν χόλον, ὃσ ῥ’ ἐνὶ θυμῷ δήμου θῆκε φάτιν καὶ ὀνείδεα πόλλ’ ἀνθρώπων, ὡσ μὴ πατροφόνοσ μετ’ Ἀχαιοῖσιν καλεοίμην ὁ μὲν οὖν Ἀρίσταρχοσ ἐξεῖλε ταῦτα τὰ ἔπη φοβηθείσ· (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 8 22:1)
  • ὅθεν οὐχ ἁπλῶσ ὁ Φοῖνιξ ἐνέβαλε τὰ περὶ αὑτὸν ἀτυχὴ ματα, δι’ ὀργὴν ἐπιχειρήσαντοσ ἀνελεῖν τὸν πατέρα καὶ ταχὺ μεταγνόντοσ, ὡσ μὴ πατροφόνοσ μετ’ Ἀχαιοῖσιν καλεοίμην, ἵνα μὴ δοκῇ νουθετεῖν ἐκεῖνον ὡσ αὐτὸσ ἀπαθὴσ ὢν ὑπ’ ὀργῆσ καὶ ἀναμάρτητοσ. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 33 6:1)

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

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