SPARAGMOS


Meaning of SPARAGMOS in English

/speuh rag"meuhs/ , n.

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

[ sparagmós lit., tearing ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .