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ὑπόσφαγμα

uposphagma · τό

the blood of an animal mixed with various ingredients

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What it meant

ὑπόσφαγμα · hyposphagma — LSJ

the blood of an animal mixed with various ingredients, black-puddings

the blood of an animal mixed with various ingredients, like black-puddings, expld. by ὑπότριμμα, Erasistr. ap. Ath. 7.324a.

II a suffusion of blood in the eye, compression-mark

a suffusion of blood in the eye from a blow, S.E. P. 1.44, Gal. 7.99, Cass. Pr. 27; a compression-mark on the arm, v.l. for -σφιγμα in Antyll. ap. Orib. 7.9.4.

III the ink of the cuttle-fish

the ink of the cuttle-fish, Hippon. 68 B, cf. Gal. 19.149.

Where it came from

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