The corpus record

λεοντο-φόνος

leontophonos

lion-killing

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What it meant

λεοντο-φόνος · leonto-phonos — LSJ

lion-killing, lion-slayer

lion-killing, νῖκαι AP 6.74 (Agath.); λ., ἡ, lion-slayer, BMus.Inscr. 1061 (Cyrene, ii A.D.).

II that poisons lions

λεοντοφόνον, τό, a Syrian insect that poisons lions, Arist. Mir. 845a28, cf. Ael. NA 4.18.

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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