σφαγῆς (sphages)

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

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 562: ἐπεὶ σφαγῆς γε πρὸς τὸ δεινὸν εἶμʼ ἐγώ,

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 44.49.4: ἀφʼ οὗ πολλάκις ἐδημηγόρησας. οἴμοι πολιῶν ᾑματωμένων, ὢ στολῆς ἐσπαραγμένης, ἣν ἐπὶ τούτῳ μόνον, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἔλαβες, ἵνʼ ἐν ταύτῃ σφαγῇς.”

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.