The corpus record

πατρο-κτόνος

patroktonos

murdering oneʼs father, parricidal

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Where it lives

Libation Bearers 3 · 5.58/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

πατρο-κτόνος · patro-ktonos — LSJ

murdering oneʼs father, parricidal, for parricide, slayer of my father

murdering oneʼs father, parricidal, A. Th. 752 (lyr.), etc.; π. δίκη trial for parricide, S. Fr. 696; π. μίασμα the foul slayer of my father, A. Ch. 1028 : also in later Prose, Ph. 2.73, Porph. Abst. 3.19.

II a fatherʼs murdering

χεὶρ π. a fatherʼs murdering hand, E. IT 1083.

In the wild

πατροκτόνον · patroktonon Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1014–1015
πατροκτόνον · patroktonon Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1026–1028
πατροκτόνους · patroktonous Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 973–974
πατροκτόνον · patroktonon Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 745–755
πατροκτόνου · patroktonou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 445)
πατροκτόνου · patroktonou Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 658)

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Where it came from

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