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σφάγιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφάγιον σφάγιου

Structure: σφαγι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: sfa/zw

Sense

  1. a victim, offering
  2. slaughter, sacrifice

Declension

Second 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

  • ἐν γὰρ Ἀχαιῶν πλήρει ξυνόδῳ λέγεται δόξαι σὴν παῖδ’ Ἀχιλεῖ σφάγιον θέσθαι· (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests2)
  • πολλῆσ δ’ ἔριδοσ συνέπαισε κλύδων, δόξα δ’ ἐχώρει δίχ’ ἀν’ Ἑλλήνων στρατὸν αἰχμητήν, τοῖσ μὲν διδόναι τύμβῳ σφάγιον, τοῖσ δ’ οὐχὶ δοκοῦν. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests5)
  • ἃ δ’ εἶπον εἰσ ἅπαντασ οὐκ ἀρνήσομαι, Τροίασ ἁλούσησ ἀνδρὶ τῷ πρώτῳ στρατοῦ σὴν παῖδα δοῦναι σφάγιον ἐξαιτουμένῳ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 2:3)
  • ὦ λέκτρα τἀμὰ δυστυχῆ τε καὶ γάμοι, οἷσ ἦλθον ἐσ μέλαθρον Ἕκτορόσ ποτε, οὐ σφάγιον υἱὸν Δαναί̈δαισ τέξουσ’ ἐμόν, ἀλλ’ ὡσ τύραννον Ἀσιάδοσ πολυσπόρου. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 5:2)
  • πυρᾶσ δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ οἶν μελάγχιμον πόκῳ σφάγιον ἐσεῖδον αἷμά τ’ οὐ πάλαι χυθὲν ξανθῆσ τε χαίτησ βοστρύχουσ κεκαρμένουσ. (Euripides, episode 1:10)

Synonyms

  1. a victim

  2. slaughter

Related

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

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