Μερόην (Meroen)

Μερόην is an Ancient Greek form of Μερόη, meaning “Meroe — the kingdom of Meroe lay between the modern hamlet of Khartoum, where the Astapus joins the…”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 5.18.7: … όσω τὸν ἵππον. Ἀλέξανδρος δὲ οὐδὲ ἐπὶ τῷδε τῷ Πώρῳ χαλεπὸς ἐγένετο, ἀλλʼ ἄλλους τε ἐν μέρει ἔπεμπε καὶ δὴ καὶ Μερόην ἄνδρα Ἰνδόν, ὅτι φίλον εἶναι ἐκ παλαιοῦ τῷ Πώρῳ τὸν Μερόην ἔμαθεν. Πῶρος δὲ ὡς τὰ παρὰ τοῦ Μερόου ἤκουσε καὶ …

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.