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ἐπικτείνω

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Οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love.

Sophocles, Antigone, 523
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Transliteration A: epikteínō Transliteration B: epikteinō Transliteration C: epikteino Beta Code: e)piktei/nw

English (LSJ)

   A kill besides or again, τὸν θανόντ' ἐ. slay the slain anew, S.Ant.1030; f.l. for ἔτι κτ-, Plu.Caes.46.

German (Pape)

[Seite 954] (s. κτείνω), noch dazu, zum zweiten Male tödten, τίς ἀλκὴ τὸν θανόντ' ἐπικτανεῖν Soph. Ant. 1017; τοὺς κειμένους νεκροὺς ἤδη καὶ τοὺς ἐπικτεινομένους Plut. Caes. 46, u. die noch dazu getödtet werden.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἐπικτείνω: ἀποκτείνω πάλιν, τίς ἀλκὴ τὸν θανόντ’ ἐπικτανεῖν, κτανεῖν ἐκ νέου, Σοφ. Ἀντ. 1030, πρβλ. Πλουτ. Κάσ. 46.