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βροτοί (brotoi)

βροτοί is an Ancient Greek form of βροτός, meaning “mortal; (noun) mortal man”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.16: … οί τινες, ὥς φησι καὶ ὁ Τίμων· ὄφρα πενεστάων σύναγεν νέφος, οἳ περὶ πάντων πτωχότατοί τʼ ἦσαν καὶ κουφότατοι βροτοὶ ἀστῶν. Αὐτὸν δὲ στυγνόν τʼ εἶναι καὶ πικρόν, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον συνεσπασμένον. ἦν εὐτελής τε σφόδρα καὶ βαρβαρικ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 22.54: χαῖρε ξεῖνʼ, ὅτις ἐσσί. τίνες βροτοί, ὧν ὅδε χῶρος;

All forms of βροτός (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.