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Σύρους (Syrous)

Σύρους is an Ancient Greek form of Σύρος, meaning “Syrian; the Syrians (in Herodotus also the Cappadocians)”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Philopoemen 17.1: … ν δὲ τὸν Ἀντίοχον αὐτὸν ἐν Χαλκίδι καθήμενον περὶ γάμους καὶ παρθένων ἔρωτας οὐ καθʼ ὥραν σχολάζοντα, τοὺς δὲ Σύρους ἐν ἀταξίᾳ πολλῇ καὶ χωρὶς ἡγεμόνων ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι πλαζομένους καὶ τρυφῶντας, ἤχθετο μὴ στρατηγῶν τότε τῶν Ἀχα …

All forms of Σύρος (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.