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δημοσίους (demosious)

δημοσίους is an Ancient Greek form of δημόσιος, meaning “public, belonging to the state”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of δημοσιόω, “confiscate; to be converted to public use”.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Agis and Cleomenes and the Gracchi 2.1: … ἐπολιτεύοντο γὰρ ὁ μὲν ὁδῶν κατασκευὰς καὶ πόλεων κτίσεις, καὶ τὸ πάντων νεανικώτατον ἦν Τιβερίῳ μὲν ἀνασῶσαι δημοσίους ἀγρούς, Γαΐῳ δὲ μῖξαι τὰ δικαστήρια προσεμβαλόντι τῶν ἱππικῶν τριακοσίους·

All forms of δημόσιος (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.