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Μῆδοι (Medoi)

Μῆδοι is an Ancient Greek form of Μῆδος, meaning “Mede, Median”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 100 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.89.2: ἐπειδὴ Μῆδοι ἀνεχώρησαν ἐκ τῆς Εὐρώπης νικηθέντες καὶ ναυσὶ καὶ πεζῷ ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων καὶ οἱ καταφυγόντες αὐτῶν ταῖς ναυσὶν ἐς …

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.5.37: ὡς δὲ εἶδον οἱ Μῆδοί τε καὶ οἱ Πέρσαι καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι ʽπᾶσι γὰρ ἔμελεν ὅ τι ἐκ τούτων ἔσοιτὀ, εὐθὺς ἥσθησάν τε καὶ ἐφαιδρύνθησαν. καὶ …

All forms of Μῆδος (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.