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Διόγενες (Diogenes)

Διόγενες is an Ancient Greek form of διογενής, meaning “Zeus-born”. It is the vocative singular neuter adjective.

Found 71 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.25: … Σικελίαν πλεύσας τῶν τραπεζῶν τούτων χάριν, νῦν παρακειμένων οὐκ ἀπολαύεις; καὶ ὅς, ἀλλὰ νὴ τοὺς θεούς, φησί, Διόγενες, κἀκεῖ τὰ πολλὰ πρὸς ἐλάας καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐγινόμην. ὁ δέ, τί οὖν ἔδει πλεῖν εἰς Συρακούσας; ἢ τότε ἡ Ἀττικὴ ο …

Euripides, Cyclops 350: ὦ Παλλάς, ὦ δέσποινα Διογενὲς θεά,

Euripides, Medea 1258: ἀλλά νιν, ὦ φάος διογενές, κάτειρ-

All forms of διογενής (declension table)

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.