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αἱμα^τηρός , ά, όν （ός, όν E.Or.962):—
A.bloodstained, “χεῖπες” S.Ant. 975 (lyr.); “ξίφος” E.Ph.625; ὄμμα bloodshot, Id.IA 381; φλὸξ αἱματηρὰ κἀπὸ . .δρυός, i.e. ἀφ᾽ αἵματος καὶ δρυός, fed by the blood of the victim and the wood, S.Tr.766: esp. bloody, murderous, πνεῦμα A Eu. 137; “τεῦχος” Id.Ag.815; “θηγάναι” Id.Eu.859; “ὀμμάτων διαφθοραί” S.OC 552; στόνος caused by the blood-reeking wound, Id.Ph.694 (lyr.).
II. of blood, “μένος” A.Ag.1067; σταγόνες gouts of blood, E.Ph.1415; “αἱ. ῥοῦς” Hp.Coac.502; αἱ. φλέβες conueying blood, Philostr.VA8.7.
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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