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sparagmos

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[spuh-rag-muhs] / spəˈræg məs /

noun

  1. the tearing to pieces of a live victim, as a bull or a calf, by a band of bacchantes in a Dionysian orgy.


Etymology

Origin of sparagmos

From the Greek word sparagmós literally, tearing

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