Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χοιροκτόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χοιροκτόνος χοιροκτόνον

Structure: χοιροκτον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ktei/nw

Sense

  1. by the sacrifice of swine

Examples

  • ποταίνιον γὰρ ὂν πρὸσ ἑστίᾳ θεοῦ Φοίβου καθαρμοῖσ ἠλάθη χοιροκτόνοισ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode, lyric 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. by the sacrifice of swine

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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