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Πρωτέως (Proteos)

Πρωτέως is an Ancient Greek form of πρωτεύς, meaning “eyesalve”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.1.17: … ς. Τόμος ἔνατος ἐν ᾧ Περὶ Ὀδυσσείας. Περὶ τῆς ῥάβδου. Αθηνᾶ ἢ περὶ Τηλεμάχου. Περὶ Ἑλένης καὶ Πηνελόπης. Περὶ Πρωτέως. Κύκλωψ ἢ περὶ Ὀδυσσέως.

All forms of πρωτεύς (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.