ὠμοφάγος

English (LSJ)

(parox.), ον,

   A eating raw flesh, carnivorous, of savage beasts, λέοντες, θῶες, λύκοι, Il.5.782, 11.479, 16.157; θῆρες h.Ven.124; of the Centaurs, Thgn. 542; of savage men, Th.3.94, Str.15.1.57, Porph.Abst.1.13; of certain daemons, ὠμοφάγοι χθόνιοι PMag.Par.1.1444; τὰ ὠ. carnivores, Hp.Vict.2.49 cod.M, Arist.HA608b25, PA694a1; ὠ. χάρις (cf. ἀνδροβρώς) E.Ba.139 (lyr.).    II rarely proparox. ὠμόφᾰγος, ον, Pass., eaten raw, of sacrifices offered to Dionysus, E.Fr.472.12 (anap., τάς τ' ὠμοφάγους δαίτας τελέσας codd. perh. rightly, cf. ὠμοφάγιον).