σφαγεῖς (sphageis)

σφαγεῖς is an Ancient Greek form of σφάζω, meaning “slaughter”. It is the aorist passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Hecuba 24: σφαγεὶς Ἀχιλλέως παιδὸς ἐκ μιαιφόνου,

Euripides, The Trojan Women 623: σφαγεῖσʼ Ἀχιλλέως, δῶρον ἀψύχῳ νεκρῷ.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 552: δεινῶς γὰρ ἐκ γυναικὸς οἴχεται σφαγείς.

All forms of σφάζω (conjugation 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.