σπλάγχνον, τό,
mostly in plural σπλάγχνα (σπλάγχανα [[ “SIG” 1002)] Refs], inward parts, especially the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, which in sacrifices were reserved to be eaten by the sacrificers at the beginning of their feast (distinguished from ἔντερα, κοιλίη, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1221, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.40, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 667b3)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σπλάγχνα πάσαντο[[ lines 1.464, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.9 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δῶκε δ᾽ ἄρα σπλάγχνων μοίρας[[ [prev. work] 40; σπλάγχνα δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ σπτήσαντες ἐνώμων 20.252, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1105 (hexameters)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, sacrificial feast, [[ [prev. author] “Eq.” 410, “V.” 654, “SIG” 1002.4 (Milet., 5th-4th c.BC), 1044.39 (Halic., 4th-3rd c.BC), “Test.Epict.” 6.17, etc.; also as used in divination, σπλάγχνων τε λειότητα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 493, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 212, “El.” 828, 838, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.160. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 any part of the inwards, ὑπὸ σπλάγχνων ἐλθεῖν to come from the womb, of a babe, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.43, compare “N.” 1.35; τῶν σῶν.. ἐκ σπλάγχνων ἕνα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1066; μητρὸς ἐν σπλάγχνοις “IG” 14.1977 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: so in singular, τὸ κοινὸν σ. οὗ πεφύκαμεν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1036 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the lungs, μόχθοις ἀνδροκμῆσι φυσιᾷ σ. [[ [prev. author] “Eu.” 249 ] Refs]; τοῦ γείτονος αὐτῷ (i.e. τῷ ἥπατι) σπλάγχνου, of the spleen, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 72c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]