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φον-εύω ,
A.murder, kill, τινα Hdt.1.35, 211, al., A.Th.340 (lyr.), S.OT716, etc.; c. dupl. acc., [φόνον] φ. τινά Sch.E.Hec.335: abs., “καὶ τίς φονεύει;” S.Ant.1174, cf. El.34:—Pass., to be slain, Pi.P.11.17, E.IA1317 (lyr.), Th.8.95.
2. of an animal, “ἐὰν . . ζῷον . . τι φονεύσῃ τινά” Pl.Lg.873e.
3. stain with blood, “φασγάνῳ δέρην” E.IA875 (troch.).
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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