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Κροῖσε (Kroise)

Κροῖσε is an Ancient Greek form of Κροῖσος, meaning “Croesus, king of Lydia”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Heroditi malignate 15: … γένει τὸ ἀνέκαθεν ἀποφαίνεται βάρβαρον · τοῖς δὲ θεοῖς λοιδορούμενος ἐν τῷ Σόλωνος προσωπείῳ ταῦτʼ εἴρηκεν ὦ Κροῖσε, ἐπιστάμενόν με τὸ θεῖον πᾶν ἐὸν φθονερόν τε καὶ ταραχῶδες ἐπειρωτᾷς ἀνθρωπηίων πέρι πραγμάτων· ἃ γὰρ αὐτὸς ἐ …

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.