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Headword: *sfagia/zein
Adler number: sigma,1703
Translated headword: to slaughter
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The [verb that means] to perform sacrifices.
Herodotus [writes]: "he, while Pausanias was slaughtering, sat in line and was wounded in the chest by an arrow".[1]
Greek Original:
*sfagia/zein: to\ qusi/as e)pitelei=n. *(hro/dotos: o(/s, e)pei\ e)sfagia/zeto *pausani/hs, kaqh/menos e)n th=| ta/cei e)traumati/sqh toceu/mati ta\ pleura/.
Notes:
cf. generally sigma 1702, sigma 1704, sigma 1705.
[1] Herodotus 9.72.1, on Kallikrates at the Battle of Plataiai (web address 1).
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Keywords: biography; definition; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 November 2001@06:49:42.
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Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 23 January 2005@19:17:11.
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