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αἰχμαλωσίαν (aichmalosian)

αἰχμαλωσίαν is an Ancient Greek form of αἰχμαλωσία, meaning “captivity; body of captives”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.31: … ς εἴη Ἀντισθένης μητρὸς Θρᾴττης, σὺ δʼ ᾤου, ἔφη, οὕτως ἂν γενναῖον ἐκ δυοῖν Ἀθηναίων γενέσθαι; Φαίδωνα δὲ διʼ αἰχμαλωσίαν ἐπʼ οἰκήματος καθήμενον προσέταξε Κρίτωνι λυτρώσασθαι, καὶ φιλόσοφον ἀπειργάσατο.

All forms of αἰχμαλωσία (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.