σφαγάς (sphagas)

σφαγάς is an Ancient Greek form of σφαγή, meaning “slaughter, throat-cutting”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 92 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.48.3: … δὲ ἐφυλάσσοντό τε ὡς ἐδύναντο καὶ ἅμα οἱ πολλοὶ σφᾶς αὐτοὺς διέφθειρον, οἰστούς τε οὓς ἀφίεσαν ἐκεῖνοι ἐς τὰς σφαγὰς καθιέντες καὶ ἐκ κλινῶν τινῶν αἳ ἔτυχον αὐτοῖς ἐνοῦσαι τοῖς σπάρτοις καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἱματίων παραιρήματα ποιοῦντες …

Euripides, Alcestis 228: —αἰαῖ· ἄξια καὶ σφαγᾶς τάδε,

Euripides, Hecuba 522: πλήρης πρὸ τύμβου σῆς κόρης ἐπὶ σφαγάς·

All forms of σφαγή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.