The corpus record

μητρο-κτόνος

metroktonos

killing oneʼs mother, matricidal

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Where it lives

Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
Orestes 3 · 3.06/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

μητρο-κτόνος · mētro-ktonos — LSJ

killing oneʼs mother, matricidal, of a motherʼs murder

killing oneʼs mother, matricidal, μ. φίτυμα, of Orestes, A. Ag. 1281; μ. χεῖρες Id. Eu. 102; μ. μίασμα the stain of a motherʼs murder, ib. 281; μ. κηλίς, αἷμα, E. IT 1200, Or. 1649.

2 matricide

Subst., matricide, A. Eu. 493 (lyr.), E. El. 975, Pl. Lg. 869b; ἔσχατος Αἰνεαδῶν μ. ἡγεμονεύσει, of Nero, D.C. 61.16.

In the wild

μητροκτόνον · mētroktonon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1280–1281
μητροκτόνων · mētroktonōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 100–102
μητροκτόνον · mētroktonon Aeschylus, Eumenides 280–281
μητροκτόνος · mētroktonos Euripides, Electra 975 (DIORISIS sentence 623)
μητροκτόνος · mētroktonos Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1200 (DIORISIS sentence 731)
μητροκτόνος · mētroktonos Euripides, Orestes *)ore/sths (DIORISIS sentence 389)

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Where it came from

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