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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

  • τοῦτο δὲ προσέταξεν, ἵν’ οἱ διαφυγόντεσ ἐκ τῆσ μάχησ καὶ πρὸσ αὑτοὺσ ἐλθόντεσ σαρκοφάγουσ ὑπολάβωσιν εἶναι τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἔτι μᾶλλον αὐτοὺσ καταπλαγῶσι ταῦτ’ ἰδόντεσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13 426:1)

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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