Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σαρκοφάγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαρκοφάγος σαρκοφάγον

Structure: σαρκοφαγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fagei=n

Sense

  1. eating flesh, carnivorous
  2. remarkable for consuming the flesh of corpses

Examples

  • οὗτοι, ὡσ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστορεῖ, μονήρεισ εἰσὶ καὶ σαρκοφάγοι, γλῶσσαν δ’ ἔχουσιν ὀστώδη καὶ προσπεφυκυῖαν, καρδίαν τρίγωνον ἐν δὲ πέμπτῳ ζῴων μορίων τίκτειν αὐτοὺσ καθάπερ τοὺσ κεστρεῖσ καὶ χρυσόφρυασ μάλιστ’ οὗ ἂν ποταμοὶ ῥέωσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 862)
  • καὶ ταῦροι δ’ εἰσὶν ἄγριοι καὶ σαρκοφάγοι, μεγέθει πολὺ τοὺσ παρ’ ἡμῖν ὑπερβεβλημένοι καὶ τάχει, πυρροὶ τὴν χρόαν· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 31:9)

Synonyms

  1. eating flesh

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

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