Σύρων (Syron)

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

It can also be a form of σύρω, “drag, trail”.

It can also be a form of σύρος, “(garbled form)”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 160 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 8: … βᾷ, καὶ ὁ χρόνος τἄλλα πάντʼ ἀφαιρῶν τῷ γήρᾳ προστίθησι τὴν ἐπιστήμην. ὅ γε μὴν πόλεμος χειμάρρου δίκην πάντα σύρων καὶ πάντα παραφέρων μόνην οὐ δύναται παιδείαν παρελέσθαι. καί μοι δοκεῖ Στίλπων ὁ Μεγαρεὺς φιλόσοφος ἀξιομνημ …

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.56: αὖθις δὲ ὁ Κῦρος ἀνειπεῖν ἐκέλευσεν, εἴ τις εἴη ἐν τῷ Ἀσσυρίων ἢ Σύρων ἢ Ἀραβίων στρατεύματι ἀνὴρ δοῦλος ἢ Μήδων ἢ Περσῶν ἢ Βακτρίων ἢ Καρῶν ἢ Κιλίκων ἢ Ἑλλήνων ἢ ἄλλοθέν ποθεν βεβιασμένος, ἐκφαίνεσθαι.

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.