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θυηφάγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θυηφάγος θυηφάγον

Structure: θυηφαγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/os, fagei=n

Sense

  1. devouring offerings

Examples

  • ὅμωσ δ’ ἔθυον, καὶ γυναικείῳ νόμῳ ὀλολυγμὸν ἄλλοσ ἄλλοθεν κατὰ πτόλιν ἔλασκον εὐφημοῦντεσ ἐν θεῶν ἕδραισ θυηφάγον κοιμῶντεσ εὐώδη φλόγα. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:8)

Synonyms

  1. devouring offerings

Similar forms

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

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