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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

  • ὃ δ’ ἐσιδὼν ὅσον τάχοσ ἐσ χέρνιβάσ τε καὶ σφαγεῖ’ ἔπεμπέ σοι. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 5:7)
  • τῶν δὲ ἀντεπικαλούντων, ὅτι αὐτοὶ σφίσιν ἥκουσι πολεμήσοντεσ, λόγοι συνισταμένων ἐγίγνοντο, καὶ τὰ ἐγκλήματα ἀλλήλοισ προύφερον, οἱ μὲν τὴν ἀπόκλεισιν τοῦ Βρεντεσίου καὶ τὴν ἀφαίρεσιν τοῦ Καληνοῦ στρατοῦ, οἱ δὲ τὴν ἀποτείχισιν τοῦ Βρεντεσίου καὶ πολιορκίαν καὶ τὴν τῆσ Αὐσονίδοσ καταδρομὴν καὶ τὸ συνθέσθαι μὲν Αἠνοβάρβῳ σφαγεῖ Γαϊού Καίσαροσ, συνθέσθαι δὲ Πομπηίῳ κοινῷ πολεμίῳ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 6 10:2)

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

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