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φόν-ιος , ον, also ος, α, ον A.Ch.312 (anap.), S.Tr.831 (lyr.), poet.Adj. (cf. φοίνιος), the prose form being φονικός,
A.bloody, “φ. σταγόνες” A.Ch.400 (anap.); “τραῦμα” E.Rh.750 (anap.).
II. blood-stained, “χεῖρες” A.Eu.317 (anap.); “φ. πέλεκυς” S.El.99 (anap.); “ὄνυξ” E.Hel.1089, etc.
2. murderous, deadly, “δράκων” A.Pers.82 (lyr.); “πληγή” Id.Ch.312 (anap.); “Άΐδας” S.OC1689 (lyr.); “ὁρμά” Ar.Av.345 (lyr.): metaph., “φ. ἄλγεα” Pi. Fr.132; “ἄχεα” E.Ph.1031 (lyr.): “γῆρας” Id.HF649 (lyr., s. v. l.): neut. pl. as Adv., “φόνια δερκόμενον” Ar.Ra.1337 (lyr.).
3. of actions, etc., murderous, “ἀγών” E.Or.334 (lyr.), Arist.Fr.674 (pl.); ἔργα φ. deeds of blood, E.El.1178 (lyr.); φ. κατάραι ib.1324 (lyr.); for φονίᾳ νεφέλᾳ, S.Tr.831 (lyr.), v. νεφέλη 1.2.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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