τάφος [ᾰ], ὁ,
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__A funeral-rites, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.619, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.547 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δαινύναι τάφον to give a funeral-feast, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.29, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.309 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τελέσαι τάφον Ἕκτορι δίῳ to perform the funeral-rites, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.660 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so ὃν πόλις στυγεῖ, σὺ τιμήσεις τάφ; [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1051; τάφῳ κτερίζειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 203; τάφον τινὸς θέσθαι [prev. author] “OT” 1447; τ. περιστέλλειν νεκροῦ [prev. author] “Aj.” 1170 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τάφου τυχεῖν obtain the rites of burial, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 47; τοιόσδε ὁ τ. ἐγένετο 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.47 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural of a single funeral, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 414a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so of cremation, [[ Clitarchus Gnomologus 32 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__A.2 the act of performing the funeral-rites, τοῦδε τοῦ τ. φήσεις μετασχεῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 534. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II grave, tomb, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 477, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).63, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 686, “Ch.” 168, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1218f, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.136, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.26, etc. (never in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: plural of a single grave, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 411 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄντες ἐν τάφοις dead and buried, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 767 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μέγας γ᾽ ὀφθαλμὸς οἱ πατρὸς τάφοι his being dead and buried, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 987:— γῦπες ἔμψυχοι τάφοι 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista 5a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]