Βῆσσον (Besson)

Βῆσσον is an Ancient Greek form of Βῆσσος, meaning “Bessos — was satrap of Bactria in the time of Dareius III., who saw reason to suspect him of treachery…”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective or accusative singular noun or adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alexander 43.3: … ὡς ἐπῆλθεν, ἀλγῶν τε τῷ πάθει φανερὸς ἦν καὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ χλαμύδα λύσας ἐπέβαλε τῷ σώματι καὶ περιέστειλε, καὶ Βῆσσον μὲν ὕστερον εὑρὼν διεσφενδόνησεν, ὀρθίων δένδρων εἰς ταὐτὸ καμφθέντων ἐκατέρῳ μέρος προσαρτήσας τοῦ σώματος, …

Strabo, Geography 15.2.10: γνοίη δʼ ἄν τις τὰ περὶ τὴν λεχθεῖσαν ὀρεινὴν ἔτι μᾶλλον προσιστορήσας τὴν ὁδὸν ᾗ ἐχρήσατο διώκων τοὺς περὶ Βησσὸν ὡς ἐπὶ Βάκτρων Ἀλέξανδρος ἐκ τῆς Παρθυηνῆς· εἰς γὰρ τὴν Ἀρίαν ἧκεν, εἶτʼ εἰς Δράγγας, ὅπου Φιλώταν ἀνεῖλε τὸν …

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.