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Κύρου (Kyrou)

Κύρου is an Ancient Greek form of Κῦρος, meaning “Cyrus”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 395 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.13.6: καὶ Ἴωσιν ὕστερον πολὺ γίγνεται ναυτικὸν ἐπὶ Κύρου Περσῶν πρώτου βασιλεύοντος καὶ Καμβύσου τοῦ υἱέος αὐτοῦ, τῆς τε καθ’ ἑαυτοὺς θαλάσσης Κύρῳ πολεμοῦντες ἐκράτη …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) pref_ducangii·17: … recentiori manu scriptus, anno scilicet mundi iuxta Graccos 6996 (Christi 1488) Ind. 6, hoc titulo: ἐπιστολαὶ κύρου Ἰωάννου Ζωναρᾶ καὶ πρωτοσυγκρίτης [sic] καὶ δρουγγαρίου τῆς βίγλης. Continct porro hic codex 45 duntaxat epis …

All forms of Κῦρος (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.