φόνος, ὁ,
(θείνω) murder, slaughter, τεύξασα πόσει φόνον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.430; τοίσδεσσι φόνον καὶ κῆρα φυτεύει 2.165; φ. ῥάπτειν 16.379; μερμηρίζειν 2.325; ὁρμαίνειν 4.843; σμικρῇσι φόνον φέρει ὀρνίθεσσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.757, etc.; φόνον πράσσειν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.46; ἀκούσιον φ. ἐξεργάσασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 869a; βουλεῦσαί τινι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1055; ἔθου φόνον [prev. author] “OC” 542 (Lyric poetry); ἐκπορίζειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1114 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of arrows, φ. προπέμπειν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 105 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν Δωριέος πρὸς Ἐγεσταίων φόνον ἐκπρήξασθαι exact vengeance for the killing.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.158 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ ζῴων φόνου καὶ μὴ φόνου ὧδε ἔχει killing or not-killing, [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 257 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; in poetry phrases, φ. συρίζειν, κινύρεσθαι, πνεῖν, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 357 (assuming variant), “Th.” 123 (Lyric poetry), “Ag.” 1309 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; φ. τινός the murder of.., [[ [prev. author] “Eu.” 580, etc.] Refs]; φ. Ἑλληνικὸς μέγιστος slaughter of Greeks, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.170; ὅμαιμος αὐθέντης φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 212; πατρῷος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 955 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολύκερως, ἄρνειος φ., [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 55, 309; ἐπὶ φόνῳ πράσσεις φόνον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1579, compare “HF” 1084 (Lyric poetry); γέρων φ. μηκέτ᾽ ἐν δόμοις τέκοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 805 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ὁ ὑπὸ Θήβης Ἀλεξάνδρον φ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.856a; ὁ κατὰ τῶν πολιτῶν φ. 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.8: _plural_, φόνοι τ᾽ ἀνδροκτασίαι τε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.612 (personified in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 228); ἔμφυλοι φ. ἀνδρῶν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 51, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 962. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]