[Meaning she who is] implicated in murder and destruction. "And a bloody Erinys emitted a fateful voice from her mouths in accompaniment."[1]
Also [sc. attested is] foi/nion [used] likewise.[2]
*foi/nios: fo/nou kai\ fqora=s paraiti/a. a)mfi\ d' *)erinnu\s foi/nios e)k stoma/twn mo/rsimon h(=ken o)/pa. kai\ *foi/nion o(moi/ws.
The headword is nominative singular masculine/feminine; the feminine
paraiti/a ['implicated'] in the gloss resolves the ambiguity, and is appropriate for the use of the adjective in the subsequent quotation, where it modifies the female deity Erinys.
[1]
Greek Anthology 7.188.5-6 (Antonius Thallus), already quoted at
epsilon 2994 and
mu 1258. Find another excerpt from this epigram at
nu 593.
[2] Quoted from somewhere, this is the masculine/feminine accusative or neuter nominative/accusative singular of the same adjective.
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