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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

  • τίν’ ἄνδρ’ Ἀχαιῶν ὁ πεδοστιβὴσ σφαγεὺσ οὐτάσει ἐν κλισίαισ, τετράπουν μῖμον ἔχων ἐπιγαίου θηρόσ; (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • "τέκνον, ἀνηρήμεθα, πεφονεύμεθα, τετυραννοκτονήμεθα, ποῦ ὁ σφαγεὺσ ; (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 20:5)
  • ὁ δὲ σφαγεὺσ τίσ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 5:8)
  • τίσ ἱερεύσ, τίσ σφαγεὺσ τῶν δυσπότμων ἢ τῆσ ταλαίνησ τῆσ ἐμῆσ ψυχῆσ φονεύσ; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 1:2)
  • τάχοσ γὰρ ἔργου καὶ ποδῶν ἅμ’ ἕψεται, ὁ μὲν σφαγεὺσ ἕστηκεν ᾗ τομώτατοσ γένοιτ’ ἄν, εἴ τῳ καὶ λογίζεσθαι σχολή· (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:22)

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

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