Πάρθων (Parthon)

Πάρθων 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 genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 134 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Sulla 5.5: ἐφʼ ᾧ τὸν μέν Ὀρόβαζον ὕστερον ὁ τῶν Πάρθων βασιλεὺς ἀπέκτεινε, τὸν δὲ Σύλλαν οἱ μέν ἐπῄνεσαν ἐντρυφήσαντα τοῖς βαρβάροις, οἱ δὲ ὡς φορτικὸν ᾐτιάσαντο κα …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 4.24·3: … τας κατοικοῦντες Ἕλληνες καὶ Μακεδόνες παραδώσειν ἑαυτοὺς αὐτῷ ἐπηγγέλλοντο καὶ συγκαταπολεμήσειν Ἀρσάκην τὸν Παρθῶν βασιλέα. καὶ ἐδέξαντο τοίνυν αὐτόν. καὶ τῷ Ἀρσάκῃ συμβαλὼν τὴν ἅπασαν ἀπέβαλε στρατιὰν καὶ αὐτὸς ἐλήφθη. Τρύφ …

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.