Παίονας (Paionas)

Παίονας is an Ancient Greek form of Παίων, meaning “Paeon — the gods' healer in Homer; also a Paeonian (north Balkan people)”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of παίονες, “Paeonians”.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.96.3: ἀνίστη δὲ καὶ Ἀγριᾶνας καὶ Λαιαίους καὶ ἄλλα ὅσα ἔθνη Παιονικὰ ὧν ἦρχε καὶ ἔσχατοι τῆς ἀρχῆς οὗτοι ἦσαν· μέχρι γὰρ Λαιαίων Παιόνων καὶ τοῦ Στρυμόνος ποταμοῦ, ὃς ἐκ τοῦ Σκόμβρου ὄρους δι’ Ἀγριάνων καὶ Λαιαίων ῥεῖ, [οὗ] ὡρίζετο ἡ ἀρχὴ τὰ πρὸς Παίονας αὐτονόμους ἤδη.

Euripides, Rhesus 441: κρυσταλλόπηκτα Παιόνας τʼ ἐπεζάρει,

Strabo, Geography 1.1.10: … σῶν, ἔθνους Θρᾳκίου παροικοῦντος τὸν Ἴστρον. καὶ μὴν καὶ τὴν ἑξῆς παραλίαν οἶδε, Θρᾳκίαν οὖσαν μέχρι Πηνειοῦ, Παίονάς τε ὀνομάζων καὶ Ἄθω καὶ Ἀξιὸν καὶ τὰς προκειμένας τούτων νήσους. ἑξῆς δέ ἐστιν ἡ τῶν Ἑλλήνων παραλία μέχρι Θε …

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.