γράμμασιν (grammasin)

γράμμασιν is an Ancient Greek form of γράμμα, meaning “letter; writing”. It is the dative plural neuter noun.

Found 185 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.45: ἔστι καὶ ἡμέτερον οὕτως ἔχον· καὶ πῶς εἰ μὴ Φοῖβος ἀνʼ Ἑλλάδα φῦσε Πλάτωνα, ψυχὰς ἀνθρώπων γράμμασιν ἠκέσατο; καὶ γὰρ ὁ τοῦδε γεγὼς Ἀσκληπιός ἐστιν ἰητὴρ σώματος, ὡς ψυχῆς ἀθανάτοιο Πλάτων. καὶ ἄλλο, ὡς ἐτελεύτ …

Plato, Cratylus 394: … αὐτῶν σκοπεῖ, καὶ οὐκ ἐκπλήττεται εἴ τι πρόσκειται γράμμα ἢ μετάκειται ἢ ἀφῄρηται, ἢ καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις παντάπασιν γράμμασίν ἐστιν ἡ τοῦ ὀνόματος δύναμις. ὥσπερ ὃ νυνδὴ ἐλέγομεν, Ἀστυάναξ τε καὶ Ἕκτωρ οὐδὲν τῶν αὐτῶν γραμμάτων ἔχει πλ …

All forms of γράμμα (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.