Πηλουσίου (Pelousiou)

Πηλουσίου is an Ancient Greek form of Πηλούσιος, meaning “Pelusium — a city at the eastern mouth of the Nile”.

It can also be a form of Πηλούσιον, “Pelousion — was a city of Lower Aegypt, situated upon the easternmost bank of the Nile, the Ostium…”. It is the genitive singular neuter noun or adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Antony 74.1: … ὴν ὁ πόλεμος τότε· τοῦ δὲ χειμῶνος παρελθόντος αὖθις ἐπῄει διὰ Συρίας, οἱ δὲ στρατηγοὶ διὰ Λιβύης. ἁλόντος δὲ Πηλουσίου λόγος ἦν ἐνδοῦναι Σέλευκον οὐκ ἀκούσης τῆς Κλεοπάτρας. ἡ δὲ ἐκείνου μὲν γυναῖκα καὶ παῖδας Ἀντωνίῳ κτεῖναι πα …

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.