Σύλλα (Sylla)

Σύλλα is an Ancient Greek form of Σύλλας, meaning “Syllas — Sulla, Roman general and dictator”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative or dative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 253 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.1.4: Πλούταρχος δέ φησιν ἐν τῷ Λυσάνδρου βίῳ καὶ Σύλλα φθειρσὶν ἐκζέσαι αὐτόν. ἦν δὲ καὶ τὸ σῶμα διακεχυμένος, ὥς φησι Τιμόθεος ἐν τῷ Περὶ βίων. οὗτος, φησί, πρὸς τ …

Plutarch, Caius Marius 10.4: … ἣ παραδοῦναι τὸν Ἰουγούρθαν ἣ μηδὲ τὸν Σύλλαν ἀφεῖναι· τέλος δὲ τὴν προτέραν κυρώσας προδοσίαν, ἐνεχείρισε τῷ Σύλλᾳ ζῶντα τὸν Ἰουγούρθαν.

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.