φον-εύς, ὁ,
genitive έως, Epic dialect ῆος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.632 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; accusative φονέα (in first foot of trimeter) [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 362, 721; in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus φονέᾰ, “Hec.” 882 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: nominative plural φονέες [[ 2nd c.AD: Lesbonax Rhetor 3.8 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+], Attic dialect φονῆς [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.7; _accusative_ φονέας [prev. author] 2.3.8, 4.3.1, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.96, Callias Epigrammaticus in “PSI” 11.1218a32, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but contraction φονεῖς [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.162e ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—slayer, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same place], 18.335, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.434, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.45, etc.; δικαιοτάτου δὲ φονῆος Pisander Epicus 10; τῷ φονεῖ τἀδελφοῦ τὴν δεξιὰν δέδωκε 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 18.6.; αὐτόχειρας καὶ φονέας 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.111 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φονέας αὑτῶν self-murderers, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator ] Refs 5th c.BC+] [same place]; τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον φονεύς ἐστιν is so much more justly accounted a murderer, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.3.3; οὐχὶ τὴν ἐμὴν φονέα νομίζων χεῖρα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 586; ἀκουσίως τινὸς φ. γενέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 451a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the sword on which Ajax had thrown himself, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1026: as _feminine_, μητέρα φονέα οὖσαν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.3 (ὁ φ., even of a woman, [prev. work]20). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 σοῦ φονέως μεμνημένος you, my destroyer, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1361. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]