αἰγός (aigos)

αἰγός is an Ancient Greek form of αἴξ, meaning “goat”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.3.10: Φασὶ δʼ αὐτὸν προειπεῖν τὴν περὶ Αἰγὸς ποταμοὺς γενομένην τοῦ λίθου πτῶσιν, ὃν εἶπεν ἐκ τοῦ ἡλίου πεσεῖσθαι. ὅθεν καὶ Εὐριπίδην, μαθητὴν ὄντα αὐτοῦ, …

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 7.1: σοὶ δʼ ἔγω λεύκας ἐπὶ δᾶμον αἶγος

Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 1.4: … ἄλλο σῶμα. δεῖ τοίνυν καὶ τὰ ἀνωτέρω μὲν τῶν ὁπλῶν, κατωτέρω δὲ τῶν κυνηπόδων ὀστᾶ μήτε ἄγαν ὀρθὰ εἶναι ὥσπερ αἰγός· ἀντιτυπώτερα γὰρ ὄντα κόπτει τε τὸν ἀναβάτην καὶ παραπίμπραται μᾶλλον τὰ τοιαῦτα σκέλη· οὐδὲ μὴν ἄγαν ταπειν …

All forms of αἴξ (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.