Πόντον (Ponton)

Πόντον is an Ancient Greek form of πόντος, meaning “sea, open sea”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 451 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.424: μείλιχος, ᾧ κʼ ἐπὶ πόντον ἐλευσόμεθʼ εὐδιόωντες.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.75.1: … ίων στρατηγοὶ Δημόδοκος καὶ Ἀριστείδης, ὄντες περὶ Ἑλλήσποντον (ὁ γὰρ τρίτος αὐτῶν Λάμαχος δέκα ναυσὶν ἐς τὸν Πόντον ἐσεπεπλεύκει) ὡς ᾐσθάνοντο τὴν παρασκευὴν τοῦ χωρίου καὶ ἐδόκει αὐτοῖς δεινὸν εἶναι μὴ ὥσπερ τὰ Ἄναια ἐπὶ τῇ …

Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 248: δέμνιον οὐκ ἐπάτησε, Διὸς δʼ ἀνθείλετο πόντονʼ.

All forms of πόντος (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.