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Σύροις (Syrois)

Σύροις is an Ancient Greek form of Σῦρος, meaning “Syros — a Syrian”.

It can also be a form of Σύρος, “Syrian; the Syrians (in Herodotus also the Cappadocians)”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Antony 27.3: … άροις, τοῖς δὲ πλείστοις αὐτὴ δι’ αὑτῆς ἀπεδίδου τὰς ἀποκρίσεις, οἷον Αἰθίοψι, Τρωγλοδύταις, Ἑβραίοις, Ἄραψι, Σύροις, Μήδοις, Παρθυαίοις.

All forms of Σῦρος (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.