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σαρκοφάγος

σαρκοφάγος, eating flesh, carnivorous

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σαρκοφάγοι Adjective: feminine nominative plural, Adjective: feminine vocative plural, Adjective: masculine nominative plural, Adjective: masculine vocative plural of σαρκοφάγος

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σαρκοφά̆γ-ος (parox.), ον,
  • eating flesh, carnivorous, τὰ σ. (sc. ζῷα) Arist. HA 488a14; ἔντομα ib. 556b21; ὄρνεον σ. Plu. Cleom. 39; ταῦροι οἱ καλούμενοι σ. Ael. NA 17.45.
      • 2 cannibal, J. AJ 13.12.6: metaph., ζῷον ὁ βασιλεὺς σ. Plu. Cat.Ma. 8.
    • II λίθος σ. a limestone (of which the best kind was quarried at Assos in the Troad), remarkable for consuming the flesh of corpses laid in it, Erastus ap. Poll. 10.150, Dsc. 5.124, Cels. 4.31.7, Plin. HN 2.211, 36.131, Aët. 7.41: hence σαρκοφάγος, ἡ, coffin, IG 14.1472, cf. Juv. 10.172.

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