φονή

A. carnage, esp. on the field of battle, ἀσπαίροντας ἐν ἀργαλέῃσι φονῇσιν Il. 10.521; ἐν φοναῖς καλῶς πεσόντ’ A. Ag. 447 (lyr.); ἐν φοναῖς πεπτῶτ’ ἄθαπτον S. Ant. 696; ἔτι ἐν τῇσι φονῇσι ἐόντας Hdt. 9.76; κομισθέντα ἐκ τῶν φονῶν Ael. NA 5.1; also of slain beasts, θηρὶ μαχέσσασθαι ἕλικος βοὸς ἀμφὶ φονῇσιν Il. 15.633; ἐν φοναῖς θηροκτόνοις E. Hel. 154.

II. blood shed by slaying, θῆκέ τ’ Αἴγισθον ἐν φοναῖς laid him weltering in his blood, Pi. P. 11.37, cf. Ael. NA 1.18,3.21; φονῶν is prob. for φόνων in S. El. 11, Tr. 558; so ἑρπετὰ καὶ δάκετα . . ὑπ’ ἐμᾶς πτέρυγος ἐν φοναῖς ὄλλυται come to a bloody end, Ar. Av. 1070 (lyr., paratrag.); ποίῳ δὲ κἀπελύσατ’ ἐν φοναῖς τρόπῳ; what was the manner of her bloody end? S. Ant. 1314; φοναῖς murderously, ib.1003 (expld. as Adj. by Sch., cf. φονός).