The corpus record

σαρκοφᾰγ-έω

sarkophageo

eat flesh, be carnivorous

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k

What it meant — LSJ

eat flesh, be carnivorous

eat flesh, be carnivorous, Arist. HA 628b33, PA 662b1, al.

II eat the flesh of, eat the flesh of

c. acc., eat the flesh of, ἀνθρώπους D.S. 1.89; σ. τὰς ζῴων σάρκας Id. 5.39; σ. μέλη eat the flesh of my limbs, AP 5.150 (Mel.).

In the wild

σαρκοφαγεῖν · sarkophagein Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 5

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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