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Πτολεμαΐδος (Ptolemaidos)

Πτολεμαΐδος is an Ancient Greek form of Πτολεμαῒς, meaning “Ptolemais — name of several cities (e.g. Acre in Phoenicia)”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Demetrius 53.4: … ἐκ Φίλας καὶ Στρατονίκην, δύο δὲ Δημητρίους, τὸν μὲν Λεπτόν, ἐξ Ἰλλυρίδος γυναικός, τὸν δὲ ἄρξαντα Κυρήνης ἐκ Πτολεμαΐδος, ἐκ δὲ Δηϊδαμείας Ἀλέξανδρον, ὃς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ κατεβίωσε. λέγεται δὲ καὶ Κόρραγον υἱὸν ἐξ Εὐρυδίκης αὐτῷ γενέσθα …

Callimachus, Epigrams 10.3: δίζησθαι φυλῆς Πτολεμαίδος υἱέα πατρός

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.