Νικίᾳ (Nikia)

Νικίᾳ is an Ancient Greek form of Νικίας, meaning “Nikias — Nicias, Athenian general (died 413 BC)”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 76 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.28.3: … ον ὄχλος φιλεῖ ποιεῖν, ὅσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ Κλέων ὑπέφευγε τὸν πλοῦν καὶ ἐξανεχώρει τὰ εἰρημένα, τόσῳ ἐπεκελεύοντο τῷ Νικίᾳ παραδιδόναι τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ ἐκείνῳ ἐπεβόων πλεῖν.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 11.2: Νικία οὔτʼ ἔγχριστον, ἐμὶν δοκεῖ, οὔτʼ ἐπίπαστον,

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.