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Λεύκτροις (Leuktrois)

Λεύκτροις is an Ancient Greek form of Λεῦκτρα, meaning “Leuctra — in Boeotia, where Thebes beat Sparta (371 BC)”. It is the dative plural neuter noun.

Found 66 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 30.6: … ν ἁμαρτάνωσιν οὗτοι, δέρεσθαι. καὶ τοῦτο μὲν εἴρηται χάριν τοῦ γελοίου· Ἀντισθένης δὲ ὁ Σωκρατικὸς ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν Λεύκτροις μάχης ὁρῶν τοὺς Θηβαίους μέγα φρονοῦντας, οὐδὲν αὐτοὺς ἔφη διαφέρειν παιδαρίων ἐπὶ τῷ συγκόψαι τὸν παιδαγωγὸν …

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.