Λαζοί (Lazoi)

Λαζοί is an Ancient Greek form of Λαζός, meaning “Lazos — the Lazi, a people of Colchis on the Black Sea”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or adjective.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini 11.2: … ασιλεὺς δʼ αὐτῶν Ἀγχίαλος. Μακρώνων δὲ καὶ Ἡνιόχων ἐχόμενοι Ζυδρεῖται· Φαρασμάνου οὗτοι ὑπήκοοι. Ζυδρειτῶν δὲ Λαζοί· βασιλεὺς δὲ Λαζῶν Μαλάσσας, ὃς τὴν βασιλείαν παρὰ σοῦ ἔχει. Λαζῶν δὲ Ἀψίλαι ἔχονται· βασιλεὺς

Procopius, De Bellis 1.12.17: ὅτι μὴ φερόντων ἀνθρώπων. ἐλύμοις μέντοι τισὶν ἐνταῦθα γιγνομένοις εἰθισμένον σφίσιν οἱ Λαζοὶ ἀποζῆν ἴσχυον.

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.