αἰχμαλώτων (aichmaloton)

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

Found 199 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.52.2: … ἄρχειν ἑκόντες ὁρῶντες προσγεγενημένας τε ναῦς ἐκ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν ἀκραιφνεῖς καὶ σφίσι πολλὰ τὰ ἄπορα ξυμβεβηκότα, αἰχμαλώτων τε περὶ φυλακῆς οὓς ἐν ταῖς ναυσὶν εἶχον, καὶ ἐπισκευὴν οὐκ οὖσαν τῶν νεῶν ἐν χωρίῳ ἐρήμῳ·

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 4.5·2: … ὔσης, ἑορτάζειν δὲ καὶ εὐωχεῖσθαι καὶ τηρεῖν τοὺς νόμους εἰς τὸ μέλλον. Καὶ ὁ μὲν γηραιὸς ἐτελεύτησεν· τῶν δ᾿ αἰχμαλωτῶν τις Νεεμίας τὴν κλῆσιν, οἰνοχόος ὢν τοῦ Ξέρξου, πρὸ τῶν Σούσων περιπατῶν ξένους εἶδέ τινας εἰσιόντας τὴν πόλι …

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.