Σώκρατες (Sokrates)

Σώκρατες is an Ancient Greek form of Σωκράτης, meaning “Sokrates — Socrates, the Athenian philosopher (469–399 BC)”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 1,398 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.28: Ἀμειψίας δʼ ἐν τρίβωνι παράγων αὐτὸν φησὶν οὕτως· Σώκρατες ἀνδρῶν βέλτιστʼ ὀλίγων, πολλῷ δὲ ματαιόταθʼ, ἥκεις καὶ σὺ πρὸς ἡμᾶς. καρτερικός γʼ εἶ. πόθεν ἄν σοι χλαῖνα γέ …

Plato, Symposium 204: … ος καὶ οὕτω γεγονὼς ὁ Ἔρως, ἔστι δὲ τῶν καλῶν, ὡς σὺ φῄς. εἰ δέ τις ἡμᾶς ἔροιτο· τί τῶν καλῶν ἐστιν ὁ Ἔρως, ὦ Σώκρατές τε καὶ Διοτίμα; ὧδε δὲ σαφέστερον· ἐρᾷ ὁ ἐρῶν τῶν καλῶν· τί ἐρᾷ; καὶ ἐγὼ εἶπον ὅτι γενέσθαι αὑτῷ. ἀλλʼ ἔτι πο …

All forms of Σωκράτης (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.