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αἰχμαλώτου (aichmalotou)

αἰχμαλώτου is an Ancient Greek form of αἰχμάλωτος, meaning “captive”. It is the genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 8.6: ὕστερον δὲ βαρέως φέρων, καὶ τὸ βασιλεύειν χάριτι Ῥωμαίων ἡγούμενος αἰχμαλώτου τρυφὴν ἀγαπῶντος εἶναι μᾶλλον ἢ φρόνημα καὶ θυμὸν ἔχοντος ἀνδρός, ἐπεῖχε τῷ πολέμῳ τὴν γνώμην καὶ συνετάττετο λάθρα καὶ πανούργως.

All forms of αἰχμάλωτος (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.