σφαγέων (sphageon)

σφαγέων is an Ancient Greek form of σφαγή, meaning “slaughter, throat-cutting”.

It can also be a form of σφαγεύς, “slaughterer, murderer”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Antony 20.3: ὁ δὲ θεῖος αὐτοῦ Καῖσαρ ζητούμενος καὶ διωκόμενος κατέφυγε πρὸς τὴν ἀδελφήν. ἡ δέ, τῶν σφαγέων ἐπιστάντων καὶ βιαζομένων εἰς τὸ δωμάτιον αὐτῆς, ἐν ταῖς θύραις στᾶσα καὶ διασχοῦσα τὰς χεῖρας ἐβόα πολλάκις· …

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.