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σαρκοφάγος

σαρκοφάγος, eating flesh, carnivorous

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σαρκοφάγους Adjective: masculine accusative plural, Adjective: feminine accusative 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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