κατασφάζω · katasphazō — LSJ
slaughter, murder
slaughter, murder, Hdt. 6.23, 8.127, LXX l.c., al., Ev.Luc. 19.27, D.C. 40.48: freq. in aor. Pass. κατεσφάγην [ᾰ] A. Eu. 102, S. OT 730, X. An. 4.1.17, etc.
The corpus record
κατασφάζω
katasphazo
slaughter, murder
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Where it lives
- Machabaeorum II 8 · 6.92/10k
- Zacharias 1 · 2.07/10k
- Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
- Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
- Luke 1 · 0.52/10k
- Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
- Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
- Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- κατασφαγείσης · katasphageisēs Aeschylus, Eumenides 100–102
- κατασφάζωνται · katasphazōntai Epictetus, Discourses 1.28 (DIORISIS sentence 1548)
- κατασφάζειν · katasphazein Epictetus, Discourses 4.13 (DIORISIS sentence 7314)
- κατασφαγείς · katasphageis Euripides, Bacchae 857–858
- κατεσφάγη · katesphagē Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 640)
- κατεσφάγη · katesphagē Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 527)
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.
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