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σφαγεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφαγεύς σφαγέως

Structure: σφαγευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: sfa/zw

Sense

  1. a slayer, butcher, a murderer, cut-throat, the slayer, a sacrificial knife

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅ γέ τοι δῆμοσ αὐτὸν μάλιστα πάντων ἐπεπόθησε, καὶ τοὺσ σφαγέασ ἐζήτουν περιιόντεσ καὶ τὸ σῶμα ἔθαψαν ἐν ἀγορᾷ μέσῃ καὶ νεὼν ἐπῳκοδόμησαν τῇ πυρᾷ καὶ θύουσιν ὡσ θεῷ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, PROOIMION 4:6)
  • "ἐμὲ δὲ καὶ τούσδε περισῶσαι τοὺσ κτενοῦντάσ με," οὐκ ἔφερεν ἔτι ὁ δῆμοσ, ἐν παραλόγῳ ποιούμενοσ τὸ πάντασ αὐτοῦ τοὺσ σφαγέασ χωρὶσ μόνου Δέκμου, αἰχμαλώτουσ ἐκ τῆσ Πομπηίου στάσεωσ γενομένουσ, ἀντὶ κολάσεων ἐπὶ ἀρχὰσ καὶ ἡγεμονίασ ἐθνῶν καὶ στρατοπέδων προαχθέντασ ἐπιβουλεῦσαι, Δέκμον δὲ καὶ παῖδα αὐτῷ θετὸν ἀξιωθῆναι γενέσθαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 20 4:8)
  • ὁ δὲ ἐσ πελάτην ἑαυτοῦ τινα φυγών, ᾧ βραχὺ καὶ εὐτελὲσ ἦν τέγοσ ἐν προαστείῳ καὶ διὰ πάντα εὐκαταφρόνητον, ἐκρύπτετο ἀσφαλῶσ, μέχρι τοὺσ σφαγέασ ὁ υἱὸσ αὐτοῦ, τὴν φυγὴν ἐσ τὸν πελάτην ὑποτοπήσασ, ὡδήγησεν ὑπὸ τὸ τέγοσ, καὶ παρὰ τῶν τριῶν ἀνδρῶν τήν τε οὐσίαν ἔλαβε τοῦ πατρὸσ καὶ ἐσ ἀγορανομίαν ᾑρέθη. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 4 2:2)
  • ἐξαγγείλαντοσ δέ τινοσ, εἴτε ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆσ εἴθ’ ὑπ’ ἀγνοίασ, τὸν υἱὸν συνειλῆφθαι, ἐπανῆλθε καὶ τοὺσ σφαγέασ μετεπέμψατο. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 4 5:4)
  • καὶ γενομένησ ἡμέρασ ἡ μὲν τοὺσ σφαγέασ μετῄει, καὶ ὁ θυρωρὸσ αὐτὴν ὡσ βραδύνουσαν ἐσ τὴν οἰκίαν ἀπέτρεχεν ἐπείξων· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 4 8:4)

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

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