Σαυνιτῶν (Sauniton)

Σαυνιτῶν is an Ancient Greek form of Σαυνίτης, meaning “Saunites — surnamed the Sannite, was one of the chief officers of Hannibal in Italy, where he held for a…”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Marcus Cato 2.2: ἐνταῦθα πρὸς ἐσχάρᾳ καθήμενον αὐτὸν ἕψοντα γογγυλίδας εὑρόντες οἱ Σαυνιτῶν πρέσβεις ἐδίδοσαν πολὺ χρυσίον· ὁ δʼ ἀπεπέμψατο φήσας οὐδὲν χρυσίου δεῖν ᾧ δεῖπνον ἀρκεῖ τοιοῦτον, αὐτῷ μέντο …

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.