Sacrificial knife
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
long straight knife · the sharp-edged knife · well-hammered Dorian knife
spoken of as
1 expressionThe sacrificial knife1 mention
Suppliants (Greek)
And bury the sharp-edged knife, wherewith thou shalt have laid the victims open and shed their blood, deep in the bowels of the earth, hard by the pyres where the seven chieftains burn;
in the texts
Electra
The ritual knife used first by Aegisthus and then seized by Orestes during the sacrifice, becoming the instrument of Aegisthus's death.
take the knife, stranger, and show us if the report about the Thessalians is true.
Orestes seized in his hands the well-hammered Dorian knife and threw from his shoulders his graceful buckled robe;
Aegisthus took from a basket a long straight knife, and cutting off some of the calf’s hair laid it with his right hand on the sacred fire, and then cut the calf’s throat when the servants had lifted it upon their shoulders, and said this to your brother:
Suppliants
The knife used in the oath's sacrificial ritual, which Athena commands be buried near the pyres of the chieftains.
And bury the sharp-edged knife, wherewith thou shalt have laid the victims open and shed their blood, deep in the bowels of the earth, hard by the pyres where the seven chieftains burn;