A.slayer, butcher, E.Rh..254 (lyr.), IT623, HF451, etc.; at a sacrifice, SIG1025.44 (Cos, iv/iii B.C.); murderer, cut-throat. Decr. ap. And.1.78, D.13.32; ὁσφαγεὺςἕστηκε, of the sword on which Ajax is about to throw himself, S.Aj.815; sacrificial knife, spit, E.Andr.1134.