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τάφος [α^] (A), ὁ, (θάπτω)
A.funeral-rites, Il.23.619, Od.4.547; δαινύναι τάφον to give a funeral-feast, Il.23.29, Od.3.309; τελέσαι τάφον Ἕκτορι δίῳ to perform the funeral-rites, Il.24.660; so ὃν πόλις στυγεῖ, σὺ τιμήσεις τάφῳ; A. Th.1051; “τάφῳ κτερίζειν” S.Ant.203; “τάφον τινὸς θέσθαι” Id.OT1447; “τ. περιστέλλειν νεκροῦ” Id.Aj.1170; τάφου τυχεῖν obtain the rites of burial, E.Hec.47; “τοιόσδε ὁ τ. ἐγένετο” Th.2.47: pl. of a single funeral, Pl.R.414a; so of cremation, Clitarch. 32 J.
2. the act of performing the funeral-rites, “τοῦδε τοῦ τ. φήσεις μετασχεῖν” S.Ant.534.
II. grave, tomb, Hes.Sc.477, Pi.I.8(7).63, A.Pers.686, Ch.168, S.El.1218 sq., Hdt.2.136, Th.1.26, etc. (never in Hom.): pl. of a single grave, S.OC411; ὄντες ἐν τάφοις dead and buried, A.Eu.767; μέγας γ᾽ ὀφθαλμὸς οἱ πατρὸς τάφοι his being dead and buried, S.OT987:—“γῦπες ἔμψυχοι τάφοι” Gorg.5a.
2. ἔμψυχός τις τ. a 'living skeleton', Luc.DMort.6.2.
3. = βωμός, Duris 34 J.
4. Cypr. for φόνος, Sch.Il.23.29.
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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