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Headword:
*sfagiazo/menos
Adler number: sigma,1704
Translated headword: victim-slaughtering
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who is] fulfilling a sacrifice through victim-slaughters. "Either after supposing [that this was] a Zeus-omen or by victim-slaughtering, his opinion was that the sacrifices did not signify a good outcome, and that it was advantageous to be watchful for the opportunity".[1]
Greek Original:*sfagiazo/menos: dia\ sfagi/wn qusi/an e)pitelw=n. o( de\ ei)/te dioshmi/an oi)hqei\s ei)=nai ei)/te sfagiazo/menos, ou)k a)gaqh\n th\n a)po/basin shmai/nein logizo/menos ta\ qu/mata, sumfe/rein e)logi/zeto fula/casqai to\n kairo/n.
Notes:
The headword -- present participle, masculine nominative singular, of sfagia/zomai -- is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; religion; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 May 2014@06:11:11.
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