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φον-ικός , ή, όν,
A.inclined to slay, murderous, “γένος -ώτατον” Th.7.29, cf. Pl.Phdr.252c, D.S.18.33, J.BJ2.21.1 (Sup.), Ael.VH14.41 (Comp.), Hierocl. in CA11p.440M., etc.; φ. ἀδίκημα blood-guiltiness, Lycurg.52; “τὸ φ.” a murderous disposition, Ael.VH2.17, 6.8; οἱ -ώτατοι (sc. πυρετοί) most malignant, Hp.Judic.7. Adv. φον-κῶς Demetr.Lac.Herc.1014.37, Poll.6.192; “πολεμεῖν” Polyaen.4.3.30: Comp. “-ώτερον” J.BJ4.9.10; “-ωτέρως” Lyd. Ost.56.
II. of murder or homicide, φ. δίκαι trials for homicide, Antipho 4.1.1, Arist.Pol.1275b10; φ. νόμοι laws respecting homicide, D.9.44, 21.43; “φ. δικαστήριον” Arist.Pol.1300b24; “τὰ φ.” murderous acts, homicides, Isoc.4.40, Arist.Pol.1269a1, 1274b24.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Antiphon, Third Tetralogy, 1.1
    • Demosthenes, Philippic 3, 44
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 43
    • Isocrates, Panegyricus, 40
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 2.21.1
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 4.9.10
    • Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 52
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 252c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.29
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 18.33
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 14.41
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 2.17
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 6.8
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