Αἴαντα (Aianta)

Αἴαντα is an Ancient Greek form of Αἴας, meaning “Ajax”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 10·3: … γενομένης, οἷον εἶπεν ἡ ἄσκησίς ἐστιν. οἱ θεώμενοι βοῶσιν, ὁ δὲ πληγεὶς σιωπᾷ τοῦ δὲ ποιητοῦ λέγοντος ὅτι τὸν Αἴαντα τῶν ὅπλων ποιούντων λαμπρὸν οἱ μὲν Ἕλληνες ἔχαιρον ὁρῶντες, Τρῶας δὲ τρόμος αἰνὸς ἐπήλυθε γυῖα ἕκαστον, Ἕκτορ …

Plutarch, De Superstitione 8·2: … ει πρὸ ἀρότου καὶ σπόρου τὸν γεωργὸν εὔχεσθαι Διὶ χθονίῳ Δημήτερί θʼ ἁγνῇ τῆς ἐχέτλης ἐχόμενον, Ὅμηρος δὲ τὸν Αἴαντά φησι τῷ Ἕκτορι μέλλοντα μονομαχεῖν εὔχεσθαι κελεύειν τοὺς Ἕλληνας ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ τοῖς θεοῖς, εἶτʼ εὐχομένων ἐκείν …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.