LogeionPerseus analysis of ἔσφαξαν:
σφάζω (slay, slaughter): aor ind act 3rd pl
LSJ entry
σφάζω
σφάζω,
Od. 4.320,
Hdt. 2.39,
E. Tr. 134 (lyr.); in Com. (
Cratin. 361)
and Prose, from Pl. (
Grg. 468c)
downwards, σφάττω,
cf. Σφαττόμενος title of play by Diph.,
IG 22.2363.34,
and ς[φά]ττετ[αι]
SIG 1024.36
(Myconus, iii/ii B.C.);
Boeot. σφάδδω An.Ox. 4.325:
fut. σφάξω E. Heracl. 493:
aor. ἔσφαξα Il. 2.422:
pf. ἔσφᾰκα,
known from plpf. ἐσφάκειν D.C. 73.6, (
ἀπο-)
78.7:—
Pass.,
fut. σφᾰγήσομαι E. Andr. 315,
Heracl. 583, (
ἀπο-)
X. HG 3.1.27:
aor. ἐσφάγην [ᾰ]
Trag. (
A. Eu. 305,
etc.) and late Prose, Plu. Publ. 4,
etc.; less freq. ἐσφάχθην,
Pi. P. 11.23,
Hdt. 5.5,
E. IT 177 (lyr., nowhere else in Trag.): pf. ἔσφαγμαι Od. 10.532,
D. 23.68:—
2. generally, slay, kill,
of human victims, as Iphigeneia, Menoeceus, Pi. P. 11.23,
E. Ph. 913,
cf. A. Ag. 1433,
Ch. 904;
σ. τινὰ ἐς τὸν κρητῆρα so that the blood ran into the bowl, Hdt. 3.11:—
Pass.,
σφάζεται ἐς τὸν τάφον Id. 5.5;
πρὸς βωμῷ σφαγείς A. Eu. 305.