ὠμόφαγος

A. eating raw flesh, carnivorous, of savage beasts, λέοντες, θῶες, λύκοι, Il. 5.782, 11.479, 16.157; θῆρες h.Ven. 124; of the Centaurs, Thgn. 542; of savage men, Th. 3.94, Str. 15.1.57, Porph. Abst. 1.13; of certain daemons, ὠμοφάγοι χθόνιοι PMag.Par. 1.1444; τὰ ὠ. carnivores, Hp. Vict. 2.49 cod.M, Arist. HA 608b25, PA 694a1; ὠ. χάρις (cf. ἀνδροβρώς) E. Ba. 139 (lyr.).

II. rarely proparox. ὠμόφαγος,ον, Pass., eaten raw, of sacrifices offered to Dionysus, E. Fr. 472.12 (anap., τάς τ’ ὠμοφάγους δαίτας τελέσας codd. perh. rightly, cf. ὠμοφάγιον).