κατασφάζω
οὐκ ἐν τῷ πολλῷ τὸ εὖ, ἀλλ' ἐν τῷ εὖ τὸ πολύ → good is not found in plenty but plenty in good, quality matters more than quantity
English (LSJ)
later κατασυν-σφάττω Luc.Sacr.12 (Pass. -
A σφάττεσθαι Jul. Or.5.174a): fut. -ξω LXX Ez.16.40:—slaughter, murder, Hdt.6.23, 8.127, LXX l.c., al., Ev.Luc.19.27, D.C.40.48: freq. in aor. Pass. κατεσφάγην [ᾰ] A.Eu.102, S.OT730, X. An.4.1.17, etc.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κατασφάζω: βραδύτερον -σφάττω: μέλλ. -ξω· -σφάζων, ῥίπτω κάτω, τὸν ἀφίνω κατὰ γῆς, φονεύω, Ἡρόδ. 6. 23· ἐπεὶ δὲ σφεας εἶλε, κατέσφαξε 8. 127· συχν. ἐν τῷ παθ. ἀορ., κατεσφάγην ᾰ·- πρὸς χειρῶν μητροκτόνων κατασφαγείσης Αἰσχύλ. Εὐμ. 102· μητρὸς ἐκ χεροῖν κατασφαγεὶς Εὐρ. Βάκχ. 856, Σοφ. Ο.Τ. 730, Ξεν. Ἀν. 4. 1, 17, κτλ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
impf. κατέσφαζον, f. κατασφάξω, ao. κατέσφαξα, ao.2 Pass. κατεσφάγην;
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Étymologie: κατά, σφάζω.
English (Thayer)
(or κατασφαττόω): 1st aorist κατεσφαξα; "to kill off (cf. κατά III:1), to slaughter": Sept.; Herodotus, Tragg., Xenophon, Josephus, Antiquities 6,6, 4; Aelian v. h. 13,2; Herodian, 5,5, 16 (8 edition, Bekker).)
