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

  • ὁρᾷσ τὸν Ἀκτέωνοσ ἄθλιον μόρον, ὃν ὠμόσιτοι σκύλακεσ ἃσ ἐθρέψατο διεσπάσαντο, κρείσσον’ ἐν κυναγίαισ Ἀρτέμιδοσ εἶναι κομπάσαντ’, ἐν ὀργάσιν. (Euripides, episode 14:1)

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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