eating flesh, carnivorous
eating flesh, carnivorous, τὰ σ. (sc. ζῷα) Arist. HA 488a14; ἔντομα ib. 556b21; ὄρνεον σ. Plu. Cleom. 39; ταῦροι οἱ καλούμενοι σ. Ael. NA 17.45.
2 cannibal
cannibal, J. AJ 13.12.6: metaph., ζῷον ὁ βασιλεὺς σ. Plu. Cat.Ma. 8.
II consuming the flesh, coffin
λίθος σ. a limestone (of which the best kind was quarried at Assos in the Troad), remarkable for consuming the flesh of corpses laid in it, Erastus ap. Poll. 10.150, Dsc. 5.124, Cels. 4.31.7, Plin. HN 2.211, 36.131, Aët. 7.41: hence σαρκοφάγος, ἡ, coffin, IG 14.1472, cf. Juv. 10.172.