Πέρσας (Persas)

Πέρσας is an Ancient Greek form of Πέρσης, meaning “a Persian”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 404 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.6.58: Ἔστι δὲ καὶ εἰς τοῦτον ἡμῶν ἐπιγράμματα τοῦτον ἔχοντα τὸν τρόπον· οὐ μόνον εἰς Πέρσας ἀνέβη Ξενοφῶν διὰ Κῦρον, ἀλλʼ ἄνοδον ζητῶν ἐς Διὸς ἥτις ἄγοι. παιδείης γὰρ ἑῆς Ἑλληνικὰ πράγματα δείξας, ὡς κ …

Euripides, Heracles 700: πέρσας δείματα θηρῶν.

Euripides, The Trojan Women 461: καὶ δόμους πέρσασʼ Ἀτρειδῶν, ὧν ἀπωλόμεσθʼ ὕπο.

All forms of Πέρσης (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.