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Καρχηδονίους (Karchedonious)

Καρχηδονίους is an Ancient Greek form of Καρχηδών, meaning “Carthage — the Phoenician city in North Africa”.

It can also be a form of Καρχηδόνιος, “Carthaginian — a man from Carthage”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 272 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.13.6: … τε τῶν νήσων ὑπηκόους ἐποιήσατο καὶ Ῥήνειαν ἑλὼν ἀνέθηκε τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τῷ Δηλίῳ. Φωκαῆς τε Μασσαλίαν οἰκίζοντες Καρχηδονίους ἐνίκων ναυμαχοῦντες·

Strabo, Geography 17.3.11: … πλήθει διαφέροντα· σαύρας δὲ διπήχεις φασίν. ἐν μὲν οὖν τῇ παρορείῳ λίθους εὑρίσκεσθαί φασι τοὺς λυχνίτας καὶ καρχηδονίους λεγομένους· ἐν δὲ τοῖς πεδίοις ὀστρακίων καὶ χηραμύδων πλῆθος, οἷον ἐν τοῖς περὶ τοῦ Ἄμμωνος λόγοις εἰρήκαμεν …

All forms of Καρχηδών (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.