- σαρκοφάγος
- σαρκοφά?σαρκοφάγοςXγ-ος (parox.), ον,A eating flesh, carnivorous, τὰ ς. (sc. ζῷα) Arist.HA488a14; ἔντομα ib.556b21; ὄρνεον ς. Plu.Cleom.39; ταῦροι οἱ καλούμενοι ς. Ael.NA17.45.2 cannibal, J.AJ13.12.6: metaph., ζῷον ὁ βασιλεὺς ς. Plu.Cat.Ma.8.II λίθος ς. a limestone (of which the best kind was quarried at Assos in the Troad), remarkable for consuming the flesh of corpses laid in it, Erastus ap.Poll.10.150, Dsc.5.124, Cels.4.31.7, Plin.HN2.211, 36.131, Aët.7.41: hence [full] σαρκοφάγος, ἡ, coffin, IG14.1472, cf. Juv.10.172.
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