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βωμόν (bomon)

βωμόν is an Ancient Greek form of βωμός, meaning “altar”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 358 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.359: τείως δʼ αὖ καὶ βωμὸν ἐπάκτιον Ἐμβασίοιο

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.84.3: τὸ δὲ πλῆθος τῶν στρατιωτῶν ὡς εἶδον, οἷα δὴ ναῦται, ὥρμησαν ἐκραγέντες ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀστύοχον ὥστε βάλλειν· ὁ δὲ προϊδὼν καταφεύγει ἐπὶ βωμόν τινα. οὐ μέντοι ἐβλήθη γε, ἀλλὰ διελύθησαν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων.

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 112.2: αἰ δʼ ὠς περὶ βῶμον ἐστάθησαν . . .

All forms of βωμός (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.