Πάρθους (Parthous)

Πάρθους 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 accusative plural masculine noun.

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

Found 90 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Sulla 5.4: … ήλοις ἐπιμεμιγμένων τῶν γενῶν· ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο τῆς μεγάλης δοκεῖ Σύλλα τύχης γενέσθαι, τὸ πρώτῳ Ῥωμαίων ἐκείνῳ Πάρθους συμμαχίας καὶ φιλίας δεομένους διὰ λόγων ἐλθεῖν. ὅτε καὶ λέγεται τρεῖς δίφρους προθέμενος, τὸν μέν Ἀριοβαρζάν …

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.