[Meaning] the knife of cooks. Also [sc. attested is] sfagi/s, [genitive] sfagi/dos, [meaning] the same.
*sfagi/dion: to\ tw=n magei/rwn maxai/rion. kai\ *sfagi/s, sfagi/dos, to\ au)to/.
The primary headword
sfagidion, grammatically the diminutive form of the secondary one
sfagi/s, is found only here. For related vocabulary see
sigma 1702,
sigma 1703,
sigma 1704.
LSJ s.v. defines
sfagi/s as a
sacrificial knife, which is true of the four instances cited there:
Euripides,
Electra 811, 1142;
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 7.72;
Polyaenus 3.9.40. Elsewhere, though, it sometimes means (as glossed here) a cook's or butcher’s knife: see e.g.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 11.37.6 and 11.40.1 (
th\n mageirikh\n sfragi/da); Michael Psellus,
Chronographia 4.49 (
mageirikh=| sfragi/di). Thus a
sfagi/s may be used for a variety of purposes and its specific meaning depends on context -- much like the Suda's glossing word
ma/xaira: see e.g.
kappa 318,
mu 302,
pi 181,
pi 3121,
tau 1197,
tau 1198. On the use of both terms to refer to sacrificial implements, see
ThesCRA, v.5, 308-312.
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