Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὠμόσιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠμόσιτος ὠμόσιτον

Structure: ὠμοσιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. eating men raw

Examples

  • τὸ γὰρ πόλεωσ ὄνειδοσ ἐν χαλκηλάτῳ σάκει, κυκλωτῷ σώματοσ προβλήματι, Σφίγγ’ ὠμόσιτον προσμεμηχανημένην γόμφοισ ἐνώμα, λαμπρὸν ἔκκρουστον δέμασ, φέρει δ’ ὑφ’ αὑτῇ φῶτα Καδμείων ἕνα, ὡσ πλεῖστ’ ἐπ’ ἀνδρὶ τῷδ’ ἰάπτεσθαι βέλη. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 2 1:8)

Synonyms

  1. eating men raw

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

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