slaying oneʼs children, slaying offspring
slaying oneʼs children, S. Ant. 1305, E. HF 835: generally, slaying offspring, Opp. H. 5.586.
The corpus record
παιδο-κτόνος
paidoktonos
slaying oneʼs children
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Where it lives
- Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- παιδοκτόνους · paidoktonous Euripides, Heracles 1380
- παιδοκτόνους · paidoktonous Euripides, Heracles 833–840
- παιδοκτόνῳ · paidoktonōi Sophocles, Antigone 1301–1305
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.