Πτολεμαῖον (Ptolemaion)

Πτολεμαῖον is an Ancient Greek form of Πτολεμαῖος, meaning “Ptolemaios — Ptolemy (Macedonian king of Egypt, or the astronomer)”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 271 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.17.140: … ῆρος ὑπὸ τῶν Ἐρετριέων ἀκούων· ὕστερον δʼ ἐθαυμάσθη, ὥστε καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐγχειρίσασθαι. ἐπρέσβευσε δὲ καὶ πρὸς Πτολεμαῖον καὶ Λυσίμαχον, τιμώμενος πανταχοῦ· οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς Δημήτριον. καὶ τῆς πόλεως διακόσια τάλαντα τελούσης π …

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 1.24.1: … Ἀλέξανδρος, ἀλλʼ ἐκπέμπει γὰρ αὐτοὺς ἐκ Καρίας διαχειμάσοντας ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ ἅμα ταῖς γυναιξίν, ἐπιτάξας αὐτοῖς Πτολεμαῖόν τε τὸν Σελεύκου, ἕνα τῶν σωματοφυλάκων τῶν βασιλικῶν, καὶ τῶν στρατηγῶν Κοῖνόν τε τὸν Πολεμοκράτους καὶ Μελέα …

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.