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|Definition=α, ον, also ος, ον <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>4(3).35(53)</span>:—poet.Adj., used for <b class="b3">φόνιος</b>, when the first syll. is to be long, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[of]] or <b class="b2">like blood, blood-red</b>, αἷμα <span class="bibl">Od.18.97</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>737</span>(lyr.), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>783</span>; δρόσος <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1390</span>; <b class="b3">φ. στάλαγμα</b>, i. e. blood, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>1239</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">bloody, blood-stained</b>, <b class="b3">φ. ἀλκά</b>, of Ajax, Pi.l.c.; <b class="b3">φ. ξυνωρίς</b>, prob. of public and private loss, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>643</span>; χεὶρ φ. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>772</span>; χεῖρες <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OT</span>466</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">κοπίς</b> prob. for <b class="b3">κόνις</b> in <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ant.</span> 601</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[bloody]], [[murderous]], Σκύλλα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>614</span>(lyr.); <b class="b3">πέπληγμαι . . δήγματι</b> (prob. <b class="b3">δάκει</b>) φοινίῳ <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1164</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">1278</span>; φ. Ἄρης <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>96</span> (anap.); ἔχιδνα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tr.</span>770</span>: metaph., <b class="b3">φ. σάλος</b>, of pestilence, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OT</span>24</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Aj.</span>352</span>.—Rare in Com., <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span>694</span>.</span>