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σφαγήν (sphagen)

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

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 429: εἰς χεῖρας ἐλθεῖν τὰς ἐμὰς ἐπὶ σφαγήν.

Euripides, Electra 757: σφαγὴν ἀυτεῖς τήνδε μοι· τί μέλλομεν;

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.