Μαλέας (Maleas)

Μαλέας is an Ancient Greek form of Μαλέα, meaning “Malea — the southernmost point of the island of LESBOS reckoned by Strabo to be 70 stadia distant from…”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Μαλέη, “Cape Malea — the SE tip of the Peloponnese”.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.39.3: πλέουσαι οὖν αἱ νῆες ἀπὸ Μαλέας πελάγιαι Μήλῳ προσέβαλον, καὶ περιτυχόντες ναυσὶ δέκα Ἀθηναίων τὰς τρεῖς λαμβάνουσι κενὰς καὶ κατακαίουσιν. μ …

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.