A.victim, offering, “σφάγιον ἔθετο ματέρα” E.Or.842 (lyr.); “σὴν παῖδ᾽ Ἀχιλεῖ ς. θέσθαι” Id.Hec.109 (anap.); διδόναι τύμβῳ ς. ib.119 (anap.); “ἑαυτὰς ἔδοσαν σφάγιον τοῖς πολίταις ὑπὲρ τῆς χώρας” D.60.29: mostly in pl., “σφάγια παρθένους κτανεῖν” E.Ion278; “τὰ ς. ἐγίνετο καλά” Hdt.6.112, cf. A.Th.379, X. An.1.8.15; “οὐ γάρ σφι ἐγίνετο τὰ ς. χρηστά” Hdt.9.61, cf. 62; τὰ ς. οὐ δύναται καταθύμια γενέσθαι ib.45; τῶν ς. οὐ γινομένων (without any Adj.) not proving favourable, ib.61; ς. ἔρδειν, τέμνειν, A.Th. 230, E.Supp.1196; “προφέρειν” Th.6.69; “ἅπτεσθαι τῶν ς” Antipho 5.12; τὰ ς. δέξαι, addressed to a goddess, Ar.Lys.204.
σφα?́γ-ιον , τό,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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