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τραγόκτονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τραγόκτονος τραγόκτονον

Structure: τραγοκτον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ktei/nw

Sense

  1. of slaughtered goats

Examples

  • ἡδὺσ ἐν ὄρεσιν, ὅταν ἐκ θιάσων δρομαί‐ ων πέσῃ πεδόσε, νε‐ βρίδοσ ἔχων ἱερὸν ἐνδυτόν, ἀγρεύων αἷμα τραγοκτόνον, ὠμοφάγον χάριν, ἱέμε‐ νοσ ἐσ ὄρεα Φρύγια, Λύδι’, ὁ δ’ ἔξαρχοσ Βρόμιοσ, εὐοἷ. (Euripides, choral, epode1)

Synonyms

  1. of slaughtered goats

Similar forms

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

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