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αἶαν (aian)

αἶαν is an Ancient Greek form of Αἴας, meaning “Ajax”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of αἶα, “earth, land”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 72 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.422: ἐξ Αἴης· μετὰ δʼ Αἶαν ἅλις πομπῆες ἔσονται.

Euripides, Medea 2: Κόλχων ἐς αἶαν κυανέας Συμπληγάδας,

Sophocles, Ichneutae 267: Ζ[εὺ]ς γ[ὰρ] κρυφ[αίαν ἐς στέ]γην Ἀτλαντίδος

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.