σφάζω,
[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.320, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.39, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 134 (Lyric poetry); in Comedy texts (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 361) and Prose, from 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus (“Grg.” 468c)] Refs 8th c.BC+] downwards, σφάττω, compare Σφαττόμενος title of play by [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus, “IG” 22.2363.34, and ς[φά]ττετ[αι] “SIG” 1024.36 (Myconus, 3rd-2nd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect σφάδδω [[ “Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 4.325] Refs]: future σφάξω [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 493 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἔσφαξα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.422: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect ἔσφᾰκα, known from pluperfect ἐσφάκειν [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 73.6, (ἀπο-) 78.7 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, future σφᾰγήσομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 315, “Heracl.” 583, (ἀπο-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.1.27: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἐσφάγην [ᾰ] Trag. [[(4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 305, etc.) and late Prose, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 4, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; less frequently ἐσφάχθην, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.23, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.5, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 177 (Lyric poetry, nowhere else in Trag.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἔσφαγμαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.532, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.68 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—slay, slaughter, properly by cutting the throat (see. σφαγή 11)[[, in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] always of cattle, μῆλ᾽ ἁδινὰ σφάζουσι καὶ εἰλίποδας ἕλικας βοῦς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.92, compare 9.46, 23.305, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.467. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]