A.“φονέες” Lesb.Rh.3.8, Att. “φονῆς” Antipho 4.2.7; acc. “φονέας” Id.2.3.8, 4.3.1, Lys.12.96, Call. in PSI11.1218a32, etc.; but contr. “φονεῖς” Plu.2.162e:—slayer, Il. l. c., 18.335, Od.24.434, Hdt.1.45, etc.; “δικαιοτάτου δὲ φονῆος” Pisand.10; “τῷ φονεῖ τἀδελφοῦ τὴν δεξιὰν δέδωκε” Arist.Ath.18.6.; “αὐτόχειρας καὶ φονέας” Isoc.4.111; φονέας αὑτῶν self-murderers, Lys. l. c.; τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον φονεύς ἐστιν is so much more justly accounted a murderer, Antipho 4.3.3; “οὐχὶ τὴν ἐμὴν φονέα νομίζων χεῖρα” E.IT586; “ἀκουσίως τινὸς φ. γενέσθαι” Pl.R.451a; of the sword on which Ajax had thrown himself, S.Aj.1026: as fem., “μητέρα φονέα οὖσαν” Antipho 1.3 (ὁ φ., even of a woman, ib.20).
2. σοῦ φονέως μεμνημένος you, my destroyer, S.OC1361.
3. metaph., “τῆς ὑμετέρας εὐσεβείας φονῆς” Antipho 4.2.7.