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|Definition=-ατος, τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[blood]], Il. 1.303, etc.; [[φόνος]] αἵματος 16.162; ψυχῆς ἄκρατον αἷμα S.''El.''786: in plural, [[αἵματα]] = [[streams of blood]], A.''Ag.''1293, S.''Ant.'' 121, E.''El.''1172, ''Alc.''496.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of anything like [[blood]], Βακχίου Tim. ''Fr.''7; αἷμα σταφυλῆς [[LXX]] ''Si.''39.26, cf. ''App.Anth.''3.166 (Procl.).<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[dye]] obtained from [[ἄγχουσα]], [[alkanet]], PHolm.15.25, ''PLeid.X.''99.3.<br><span class="bld">3</span> with collat. meaning of [[spirit]], [[courage]], οὐκ ἔχων αἷμα [[pale]], [[spiritless]] Aeschin.3.160; τοὺς αἷμα φάσκοντας τὴν ψυχήν Arist.''de An.'' 405b4.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[bloodshed]], [[murder]], A.''Ch.''520, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''101; [[ὅμαιμον αἷμα]] = a [[kinsman]]'s [[murder]], A.''Supp.''449; [[εἴργασται μητρῷον αἷμα]] [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Orestes|Or.]]'' 285, cf. 406; αἷμα [[πράττειν]] ib.1139; αἷμα συγγενὲς κτείνας S.''Fr.''799.3; [[αἷμα τραγοκτόνον]] = [[shed]]ding of [[goat]]'s [[blood]], E.''Ba.''139; [[ἐφ' αἵματι φεύγειν]] = to [[avoid]] [[trial]] for [[murder]] by going into [[exile]], ''SIG''58 (Milet., V B.C.), D.21.105; αἷμα συγγενὲς [[φεύγων]] E.''Supp.''148: pl. in this sense, A.''Ch.''66,650, freq. in E., never in S.; [[αἵματα σύγγονα]] = [[brother]]s' [[corpse]]s, E.''Ph.''1502:—concrete, [[νεακόνητον αἷμα]] = [[keen-edged]] [[death]], i.e. a [[sword]], S.''El.''1394 (expl. by [[μάχαιρα]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]).<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[blood relationship]], [[kin]], αἷμα τε καὶ γένος Od.8.583; αἵματός εἰς ἀγαθοῖο 4.611; οΐ σῆς ἐξ αἵματός εἰσι γενέθλης Il.19.111; [[τὸ αἷμα τινος]] his [[blood]] or [[origin]], Pi.''N.''11.34; [[αἷμα ἐμφύλιον]] = [[incestuous]] [[kinship]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''1406; τοὺς πρὸς αἵματος Id.''Aj.''1305, cf. Arist.''Pol.''1262a11; μητρὸς τῆς ἐμῆς [[ἐν αἵματι]] = [[akin]] to her [[by blood]], A.''Eu.''606, cf. ''Th.''141; ἀφ' αἵματος ὑμετέρου S.''OC''245.<br><span class="bld">2</span> concrete, of a person, ὦ Διὸς… αἷμα ''IG''14.1003.1, cf. 1389 ii4, etc.