Διαξαίνειν
to shred
Translated by Craig Gibson23 Sep 2003Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to destroy, to cut through. "But he was convicted, and the People were about to shred him. And they did not release him, but rather they allowed him to go away from land to land."1 And elsewhere: "and he, having committed accursed murders and having shredded the laws and having renounced the nature of men and having made marriages that were both without sacrifices and without marriage [...]."2