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|Definition=ἡ, always, exc. in Suid., in pl., <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[carnage]], esp. on the field of battle, ἀσπαίροντας ἐν ἀργαλέῃσι φονῇσιν <span class="bibl">Il.10.521</span>; ἐν φοναῖς καλῶς πεσόντ' <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>447</span> (lyr.); ἐν φοναῖς πεπτῶτ' ἄθαπτον <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>696</span>; ἔτι ἐν τῇσι φονῇσι ἐόντας <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.76</span>; κομισθέντα ἐκ τῶν φονῶν <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>5.1</span>; also of slain beasts, θηρὶ μαχέσσασθαι ἕλικος βοὸς ἀμφὶ φονῇσιν <span class="bibl">Il.15.633</span>; ἐν φοναῖς θηροκτόνοις <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>154</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">blood shed by slaying</b>, <b class="b3">θῆκέ τ' Αἴγισθον ἐν φοναῖς</b> laid him weltering <b class="b2">in his blood</b>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>11.37</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>1.18</span>,<span class="bibl">3.21</span>; <b class="b3">φονῶν</b> is prob. for <b class="b3">φόνων</b> in <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>11</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tr.</span>558</span>; so <b class="b3">ἑρπετὰ καὶ δάκετα . . ὑπ' ἐμᾶς πτέρυγος ἐν φοναῖς ὄλλυται</b> come to a [[bloody]] end, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1070</span> (lyr., paratrag.); <b class="b3">ποίῳ δὲ κἀπελύσατ' ἐν φοναῖς τρόπῳ;</b> what was the manner of her [[bloody]] end? <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>1314</span>; <b class="b3">φοναῖς</b> [[murderously]], ib.<span class="bibl">1003</span> (expld. as Adj. by Sch., cf. [[φονός]]).</span>