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σφαγίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφαγίς σφαγίδος

Structure: σφαγιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: sfa/zw

Sense

  1. 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

  • ἐσ δὲ Προιτίδασ πύλασ ἐχώρει σφάγι’ ἔχων ἐφ’ ἁρ́ματι ὁ μάντισ Ἀμφιάραοσ, οὐ σημεῖ’ ἔχων ὑβρισμέν’, ἀλλὰ σωφρόνωσ ἄσημ’ ὅπλα. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 2:2)
  • ἃ δ’ Αὐλὶσ ἔλαβε σφάγι’ ἐμῆσ ὁμοσπόρου, ἐῶ σ’ ἔχειν ταῦθ’· (Euripides, episode, iambic 18:1)
  • ἔνθα καὶ Πείσανδροσ ἦλθε δεόμενοσ ψυχὴν ἰδεῖν ἣ ζῶντ’ ἐκεῖνον προὔλιπε, σφάγι’ ἔχων κάμηλον ἀμνόν τιν’, ἧσ λαιμοὺσ τεμὼν ὥσπερ <ποθ’> οὑδυσσεὺσ ἀπῆλθε, κᾆτ’ ἀνῆλθ’ αὐτῷ κάτωθεν πρὸσ τὸ λαῖτμα τῆσ καμήλου Χαιρεφῶν ἡ νυκτερίσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 12)
  • τοιαῦτ’ ἂν ἴδοισ σκηνῆσ ἔνδον χειροδάϊκτα σφάγι’ αἱμοβαφῆ, κείνου χρηστήρια τἀνδρόσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, anapests4)

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

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