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αἰχμαλωσίας (aichmalosias)

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

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 29.4: … ρον ἐκ τῶν ὁμοίων. ταῦτʼ ἀκούσαντες οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι τόν τε πόλεμον ἐφοβοῦντο, καὶ τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν γυναικῶν οὐδὲν αἰχμαλωσίας ἐπιεικέστερον ἔχειν ἐνόμιζον. ἀποροῦσι δʼ αὐτοῖς θεράπαινα Φιλωτίς, ὡς δʼ ἔνιοι λέγουσι Τουτόλα καλουμένη, συ …

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.