κατασφάζω
κοινὴ γὰρ ἡ τύχη καὶ τὸ μέλλον ἀόρατον → fortune is common to all, the future is unknown | fortune is common to all and the future unknown | fate is common to all and the future unknown
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;
égorger.
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).)
