Πάρθοις (Parthois)

Πάρθοις is an Ancient Greek form of Πάρθοι, meaning “Parthoi — the Parthians, a people of NE Iran, later Rome's great eastern rival”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Πάρθος, “Parthos — a Parthian”.

It can also be a form of Πάρθον, “Parthon — a town in the jurisdiction of Carthage, in the neighbourhood of Zama”.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Crassus 17.4: … ὐτήν μέγιστον ἁμάρτημα τῶν γενομένων, ὅτι πρόσω χωρεῖν δέον ἔχεσθαί τε Βαβυλῶνος καὶ Σελευκείας, δυσμενῶν ἀεὶ Πάρθοις πόλεων, χρόνον ἐνέδωκε τοῖς πολεμίοις παρασκευῆς.

All forms of Πάρθοι (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.