Σούσων (Souson)

Σούσων is an Ancient Greek form of Σοῦσα, meaning “Susa — the Persian royal capital in Elam”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of σοῦσον, “lily”.

Found 53 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.33: Φασὶ δὲ καὶ τὸ εἰς τοὺς Ἐρετριέας τοὺς σαγηνευθέντας αὐτοῦ εἶναι· Εὐβοίης γένος εἰμὲν Ἐρετρικόν, ἄγχι δὲ Σούσων κείμεθα· φεῦ, γαίης ὅσσον ἀφʼ ἡμετέρης. κἀκεῖνο· ἁ Κύπρις Μούσαισι· κοράσια, τὰν Ἀφροδίταν τιμᾶτʼ ἢ τὸν Ἔρωτʼ …

All forms of Σοῦσα (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.